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EXPLOSIVE DOCS: AG GARLAND LIED TO CONGRESS, WHISLEBLOWER SHOWS FBI FLAGGING
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On Oct. 27, Attorney General Merrick Garland sat before Congress and claimed the
FBI would not be flagging parents protesting at local school board meetings as
potential domestic terrorists.

Whistleblower documents released on Tuesday, however, suggest this may have been
an outright lie.

The documents, sent to House Republicans by an anonymous FBI staffer, show that
the FBI’s counterterrorism and criminal investigative divisions were tracking
threats against teachers by flagging certain instances with “threat tags.”

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Questions over whether or not the FBI was improperly investigating parent
protesters first arose after Garland sent an Oct. 4 memo to the FBI directing
the agency to track “threats” against public school officials. This memo came
shortly after the National School Boards Association penned a letter to
President Joe Biden demanding he treat “the growing number of threats” against
school board members as acts of domestic terrorism.

Garland claimed during his Oct. 27 testimony that his memorandum did not rely
upon the NSBA’s letter. However, according to Fox News, recently released
internal emails show that both the White House and the Department of Justice
coordinated with the NSBA prior to the release of Garland’s memo.

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Following its release, Republicans quickly became concerned over Garland’s
order, given that the attorney general had no examples to point to as credible
“threats” against school officials. This led many to believe the target of these
orders was actually the growing number of parents protesting against critical
race theory, masking policies and other left-wing policies spreading throughout
the American school system.

Concerns that such “threats” were being overly exaggerated seemed to be
confirmed by the NSBA itself on Oct. 22 when the group apologized for its
letter, saying “there was no justification for some of the language included in
the letter.”

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“That’s all it’s about, and all it asks, is for federal law enforcement to
consult with, meet with local law enforcement to assess the circumstances,
strategize about what may or may not be necessary to provide federal assistance,
if it is necessary,” Garland told Congress.

Given the leaked documents, these claims appear to be outright false.

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The documents show that the FBI set up an investigative process to track
potential threats against school board members and teachers by assessing “threat
tags.” Whether or not these “threat tags” are being or have been applied to
protesting parents remains unclear.

According to one of the leaked documents, threat tags are to be used in all
“investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school
board administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.”

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In a statement provided to The Wall Street Journal, the FBI maintained it “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.”

In a letter addressed to Garland, House Republicans are demanding the attorney
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“We are now in receipt of a protected disclosure from a Department whistleblower
showing that the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division is compiling and categorizing
threat assessments related to parents, including a document directing FBI
personnel to use a specific ‘threat tag’ to track potential investigations,”
House representatives said in the letter.

“This new information calls into question the accuracy and completeness of your
sworn testimony.”

“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.”


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