State department dissenters 'disagreeing not disobeying': expert More than a thousand employees, foreign officers and others have signed a dissent cable asserting that President Trump’s executive order to temporarily bar citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries would not make the nation safer. The Dissent Channel is a formal procedure for officials who wish to voice their disagreements over policy, and makes clear 'there's a difference between disagreeing and disobeying' says expert Susan Johnson, former president of the American Foreign Service Association. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES