We already know that Attorney General Merrick Garland was not forthcoming about the amount of collaboration that took place between the National School Board Association (NSBA) and the Biden administration with regard to the now-infamous letter that labeled concerned parents as “domestic terrorists.” Despite what Garland said before a Senate hearing back in late October, there was much more going on behind the scenes than the public was aware of.
Now, through a whistleblower within the FBI, we’re learning that not only was the Justice Department coordinating on the matter, it was also helping field agents determine ways that parents could be categorized with a “threat tag” for anything that provided an avenue to bring in possible federal charges. This goes far beyond any kind of specific threats against a school board, something that local law enforcement would ordinarily and necessarily handle, this speaks to questions like whether the FBI was watching as parents organized using a Facebook group or created a mailing list.
The question now is whether Garland will be held accountable for his contradictory statements on the matter when the FBI Counterterrorism unit was working since early October, weeks before Garland’s testimony, to target parents using anti-terrorism laws:
Records from an anonymous whistleblower released by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Tuesday, however, reveal that the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division is engaged in categorizing threat assessments relating to parents with a “threat tag.”
An internal email attached to a letter from Jordan to the attorney general references an Oct. 4 memorandum from Garland for the FBI to address “investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” with the tag.
“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,” Jordan wrote. “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.”
With the gubernatorial election raging in Virginia over the month of October, parental concerns over education became the number one issue in the race, can it be said this is yet another instance of the FBI and Justice Department attempting to meddle in an election? What other possible motive can there be for wasting federal resources training agents for ways they can target parents with federal anti-terrorism laws for speaking out at a local school board meeting?
Merrick Garland should recuse himself entirely of this matter, bring in someone else to handle the issue and investigate, or resign in disgrace. The corruption runs too deep on this matter and Garland has already proven that he has obfuscated facts and withheld information about what his Justice Department was doing to label parents as threats for speaking out against racist, anti-American curriculum in schools.
The issue runs deeper in that Garland’s family has ties to a company that produces curriculum and resources for schools to integrate critical race theory tenets into their teaching. Garland has family members that profit so long as parents are prevented from interfering in the scheme:
The education company co-founded by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law is facing fresh scrutiny after it was revealed the company supports critical race theory curricula while servicing 23,000 schools in the nation, costing tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars — while Garland cracks down on opposition to the ideology.
The company has been paid millions of dollars by various states. In California, the El Dorado County Office of Education paid Panorama Education $1.4 million last year in part to “reduce the achievement gap by ensuring that all systems are culturally, linguistically, and equitably responsive to the needs of our students.”
In an Oct. 8 letter, several Republican lawmakers wrote to Garland expressing concern over “reporting about an alleged connection between your family members and controversial curricula that will directly benefit from this memorandum and the chilling of speech.”
This fact, coupled with Garland’s lies during his Senate testimony, should be enough for President Biden to remove him from this matter, or ask him to step down entirely.
Garland has once again damaged the reputation of the Justice Department by turning it into a political entity to investigate opponents of the Democratic Party.
