[thegrim000]

Surely there's nothing in the rest of the email, that they chose not to share with us, that would explain the reaction to the email. Surely.

[advisedwang]

Or not?

It's hardly hard to believe that the government would persecute critics. That has happened even before the current administration. It certainly in line with other behaviour we've seen from this admin.

[oliwarner]

I'd hope that even a WaPo journalist would ask those questions and demand to view the evidence. It sounds like there should be a lot of things available to confirm the story.

[bathtub365]

Do you have any actual information?

[barbacoa]

It's the new pattern you see from this kind of reporting. Innocuous beginning, omit the middle context, then mentioning the end reaction.

"Young mathmatics professor buys cabin in Montana, then gets arrested by FBI!"

"Austrian born artist wants to make Germany better, then the UK firebombs Dresden!"