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If the email is as innocent as the article makes it out to be, then this is pretty scary stuff. The DHS Trump appointees are either extremely paranoid and incompetent or abusing government powers to intimidate citizens.

>>Sabinu+(OP)
My money's on "all of the above"

>>Sabinu+(OP)
If this is what you make of the current atmosphere, I'd say that you're severely underestimating it. In fact, the entire US seems to be in denial and sleep walking into a disaster. Everything that has happened so far was predictable at least six months in advance. But people seem to miss it because of the 'that won't happen to us' attitude. I'm not going post alarming warnings anymore. Just study history in detail. Everything happening today is eerily similar to several dark chapters in history - except with the added precision lethality of modern information warfare.

One more thing. Trump isn't your biggest problem. He's just a very visible symptom of a much deeper festering issue. The people who surround him actually far exceed his penchant for preplanned retribution. They follow the same playbook that many foreign leaders employ with him to get their wishes - satisfy his craving for validation.

>>Sabinu+(OP)
The article includes (some?) of it:

> “Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” Jon wrote from his gmail account. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.”

That seems an extremely reasonable email/tone. In fact, this is basically a model of what our civics classes told us we should do.