[andy58-in-nh]

Re: Shaarik Zafar, I think the joke is decidedly on us.

From his title, you'd be led to believe that he had some sort of background in Intel/Counterintelligence.

Er...not exactly. Instead, prior to his current role, Zafar served as a senior policy advisor in the Office of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at DHS. Before that, Zafar served as (I am not making this up) "Special Counsel for Post 9/11 National Origin Discrimination" at the Department of Justice, where he led DOJ’s "Initiative to Combat Post 9/11 Discriminatory Backlash".

Source: http://osce.usmission.gov/media/pdfs/shaarik_zafar.pdf

[traumer]

a senior policy advisor in the Office of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at DHS...

OMG !