In the week since President Trump asserted incorrectly that Alabama was likely to get hit "(much) harder than anticipated" by Hurricane Dorian, he has fired off many tweets insisting he was technically correct, doctored a weather map with a Sharpie, got his homeland security adviser to back him up, and earned an odd unsigned statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration saying the National Weather Service's Birmingham office had been wrong to correct him. A story that could have died discreetly with one admission of error has now prompted several investigations focused on NOAA's statement. The inspector general of...
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