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Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP We reported yesterday that an FBI whistleblower had leaked some disturbing information to Congress. The information was an email showing that, contrary to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s testimony before Congress that the DOJ/FBI wasn’t treating parents objecting to school board actions as “domestic terrorists,” their Counterterrorism unit was in fact involved in looking into the issue, and putting “threat tags” on all “investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrations, board members, teachers, and staff.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded that Garland answer why this was different from Garland’s prior testimony, and asked that he come back before Congress to explain all this. 🚨🚨🚨 #BREAKING : Whistleblower Discloses Explosive Documents Showing FBI Using Counterterrorism Tools to Investigate Parents pic.twitter.com/HpbdtinJQo — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) November 16, 2021 Rep. Jordan said that the whistleblower’s “disclosure provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of a left-wing special interest group against concerned parents,” meaning at the behest of the National School Boards Association.
Here’s the FBI email in question. — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) November 16, 2021 The FBI responded and, in so doing, they did themselves more harm than good. They tried to argue this was standard practice and that parents objecting to school actions were just like drug or human traffickers. “A tag is merely a statistical tool to track information and for review and reporting. The creation of a threat tag in no way changes the long-standing requirements for opening an investigation,” the FBI released in a statement. “Nor does it represent in a shift in how the FBI prioritizes threats. The FBI has used tags to track everything from drug trafficking to human trafficking.” How nice, to class parents in with drug and human traffickers — that should go over well.
Notice what they didn’t do is answer why the Counterterrorism unit is involved. What they didn’t do was list any federal crimes that justify this action. As we have reported before, Merrick Garland was asked by Congress to produce the data of the threats to justify this […]
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