“Authorities said in that case Ismail had said the government kept Americans drugged to keep them unaware of what the government was doing.”

Not so much drugged as lied to and half-informed so as to remain blissfully unaware of what people such as Tayyab Tahir Ismail are doing, and even of the fact that they exist at all.

“Man accused of sending bomb-making instructions to people who support ‘violent jihad,'” by Amanda Batchelor, Local 10 News, December 17, 2018: