Emails reveal Secret Service contacts with Oath Keepers - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

The internal emails show special agents in close communication with Oath Keepers leader Steward Rhodes.

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@SrRochardBunson Is there anything damning here? It seems sensible for any two armed groups trying to avoid unintentional violence to establish some sort of deconfliction communications channel. This is very easy to read as that.

As long as we have both the first and second amendments, this sort of communication between the government and unsavoury armed groups looks to me like the nutjobs being responsible and the government properly respecting their civil rights.

Now, if there's communications suggesting that there's membership overlap between the USSS and any right wing militia, or coordination towards a common goal other than deconfliction, that's a different story entirely.