Within hours, a state department dissent cable, asserting that President Trump's executive order to temporarily bar citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries would not make the nation safer, travelled like a chain letter - or a viral video. The cable wended its way through dozens of American embassies around the world, quickly emerging as one of the broadest protests by American officials against their President's policies. By 4pm on Tuesday, the letter had attracted around 1,000 signatures, state department officials said, far more than any dissent cable in recent years. It was being delivered to management, and department officials said more diplomats wanted to add their names to it. State department rules are supposed to protect dissenters from being retaliated against, and last year several dozen diplomats signed a dissent memo criticising American policy on Syria.

Source: The Telegraph February 01, 2017 22:25 UTC