The author Victoria Hermann of the data "loss" article seems to be the only one I could find in Google making the same claim. I did find this article panning her claim though.
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2017/03/28/i-am-an-arctic-researcher-donald-trump-is-deleting-my-citations/
Just to be clear, the blog post by William M. Connolley wasn't disputing the underlying fact that when Trump and his admin took over the Whitehouse web site, that entire chunks of data was removed–particularly relating to the environment. The ONLY way to access a lot of that data is to find the backup archive of the original web site at
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. So, any website or documents that referenced the document that Victoria Herrmann was involved creating. So, anybody who had a link off the old website will find broken links...is that bad? Well, it ain't good...and I've not heard anybody from the Whitehouse explain why they decided to blow out the entire old website.
And, yes, Victoria may have been a bit strident in her complaints, but the situation she mentioned regarding wholesale changes and data deletions that happened in Canada
How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre.
So, what Trump did was delete access to anybody who tries to use the old urls to access the PDF. And actually, the PDF is interesting reading...
The National Strategy for the Arctic RegionThe National Strategy for the Arctic Region sets forth the United States Government’s strategic priorities for the Arctic region. This strategy is intended to position the United States to respond effectively to challenges and emerging opportunities arising from significant increases in Arctic activity due to the diminishment of sea ice and the emergence of a new Arctic environment. It defines U.S. national security interests in the Arctic region and identifies prioritized lines of effort, building upon existing initiatives by Federal, state, local, and tribal authorities, the private sector, and international partners, and aims to focus efforts where opportunities exist and action is needed. It is designed to meet the reality of a changing Arctic environment, while we simultaneously pursue our global objective of combating the climate changes that are driving these environmental conditions.
So, it wasn't #FAKENEWS as Alan claimed...and the interesting thing is that the blog poster is actually a professional attacker of everything, even Alan's precious Donald. See:
Donald trump, ha ha haSince repeal of Obamacare was a major campaign promise, Trump looks (a) stupid and (b) a failure. It is worth noting, in passing, that even if the bill had been passed it would have broken any number of promises but I’m doubtful that would have mattered too much, because everyone has a memory like a goldfish nowadays and most of those promises were forgotten seconds after they were uttered. The only meaningful promise was repeal-and-replace; that failed. To me, Trump’s failure to persevere looks… I struggle to find the one key word that sums it up.
Instead of knuckling down to it, instead of rolling up his sleeves and settling in for some hard work persuading doubters, threatening the malleable, and reworking the bill to make it acceptable to enough Republicans, he just gave up. It looks lightweight; careless; petulant. He has long been indifferent to the truth; this makes him indifferent to reality. To say the obvious thing that everyone else has said, it makes his much-vaunted claims to be a peerless dealmaker look suspect. Naturally, he’ll move quickly on to the next thing in the hope that the public’s goldfish-like mind forgets all about it.
So, William M. Connolley isn't much of a friend of Trump...heck, based on his other blog posts, he's not much of a friend of anybody's, not even you Alan :~)
