Despite that, the Attorney General has “stubbornly refused” to rescind its memorandum that, according to Garland’s own testimony, was based on the “evidence” of “acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials” cited in the NSBA letter. Jordan’s letter further reads that, consequently, the NSBA disavowed its September letter, expressing “regret” and “apologies” for sending it. The e-mails suggest the NSBA consulted with the Biden administration when drafting the letter that resulted in a prompt response from the Department of Justice. Here, Jordan referred to the leaked e-mail exchange between the NSBA, which sent a letter to President Biden on September 29 urging him to treat parents who dare to speak up against the school boards’ policies as “domestic terrorists,” and the White House. We know from public reporting that the National School Boards Association coordinated with the White House prior to sending a letter dated September 29 to President Biden labeling parents as domestic terrorists and urging the Justice Department to use federal tools - including the Patriot Act - to target parents. This disclosure provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of a left-wing special interest group against concerned parents. In the light of the whistleblower’s disclosures, Jordan wrote to Garland,
Quoting the DOJ press release on the memo, the ranking member of the Oversight Committee, Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), asked Garland during the hearings about the involvement of the National Security Division into the task force which was ordered to “to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel,” to which Garland did not provide any direct answer. The disclosed FBI e-mail is dated October 20, a day before Garland testified to the Judiciary Committee that he could not “imagine any circumstance in which the Patriot Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor … a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorists.” The e-mail says the move was made in response to the attorney general’s memorandum issued on October 4, in which he expressed the Department’s commitment “to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate.” Partnership Among Federal State Local Tribal And Territorial Law Enforcement To Address Threats Against School Administrators Board Members Teachers And Staff 0 0 The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective engagement with law enforcement partners at all levels. The Counterterrorism and Criminal divisions created a threat tag, EDUOFFICIALS, to track instances of related threats…. The e-mail, signed by Counterterrorism Division Assistant Director Timothy Langan and former Criminal Division Assistant Director Calvin Shivers, reads: The bureau e-mail provided by an anonymous whistleblower in the Biden administration to Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed Tuesday that the FBI had created a system to track threats against school-board officials and administrators. FBI internal correspondence provides evidence that federal law enforcement used counterterrorism tools to target parents opposing such “educational” policies as CRT, masking, and LGBT-related propaganda in schools, which means that Attorney General Merrick Garland could have lied under oath to Congress some weeks ago when testifying on the issue.