U.S. lawmakers, as well as the American public, have every right to be up in arms over the government’s bungled acquisition of a new generation of civil-military weather satellites, but calls for the dismissal of the top officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are both misguided and unfair.

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