Once again we have yet another reason to thank God Merrick Garland isn’t on the Supreme Court.
In a letter to AG Garland last night, Rep. Jim Jordan wrote that a whistleblower had revealed that the FBI is using its Counterterrorism Division to investigate parents, which contradicts Garland’s testimony before congress last month, meaning he either lied or was unaware.
When he testified last month Garland said that he couldn’t “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.”
But now, according to Fox News:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has created a “threat tag” to aid in tracking alleged threats against school board officials, teachers and staff, as part of its implementation of a controversial memo issued by Attorney General Merrick Garland last month citing a nationwide increase in harassment of education officials.
An Oct. 20 internal email from the FBI’s criminal and counterterrorism divisions, released Tuesday by House Republicans, instructed agents to apply the threat tag “EDUOFFICIALS” to all investigations and assessments of threats directed specifically at education officials.
“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 email stated.
The email also directs FBI agents to consider whether the criminal activity being investigated is in violation of federal law and what the potential “motivation” is behind it.
FROM THE WHISTLEBLOWER: pic.twitter.com/4IfJRPVKMk
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) November 16, 2021
Sen. Josh Hawley has since called for Garland to come back to Congress to respond to the whistleblower’s claims.
The FBI said in a statement to Fox “The Attorney General’s memorandum simply underscores the FBI’s ongoing efforts to assist state, local, and federal partners to address threats of violence, regardless of the motivation. The FBI has never been in the business of investigating parents who speak out or policing speech at school board meetings, and we are not going to start now.”
They haven’t exactly been trustworthy before.
Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York, Debunk This: Shattering Liberal Lies, and Spygate
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