FBI whistleblower reveals agency created 'threat tag' to track alleged harassment of education officials
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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.
From the whistleblower
"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.
"Merrick Garland testified that the FBI wasn’t targeting parents," Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, tweeted Tuesday afternoon. "We now know the FBI is ‘tagging’ parents they consider threatening. The Attorney General has some explaining to do."
"If this is accurate, parents are getting the domestic-terrorist treatment after all," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Ohio, tweeted .
The FBI released released two statements to Fox News on Tuesday saying it is committed to preserving the First Amendment, and that the creation of a threat tag "in no way changes the long-standing requirements for opening an investigation, nor does it represent a shift in how the FBI prioritizes threats."
"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," it said. "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."
Garland’s Oct. 4 memo directed the FBI and U.S. attorney's offices to investigate "threats of violence" at school board meetings in order to combat what the Department of Justice (DOJ) called a "disturbing trend" of harassment of school officials.
Republicans have warned that the directive is a pretext to silence parents across the country, though Garland insisted before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month that is not the case.
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A year from now Republicans will control Congress and Garland will be facing certain impeachment.
The FBI should be "tagging" these people. School board members across the country have been getting threatened for doing their jobs. That's not how we do; things in America. If you don't like the job they're doing you run someone against them in an election. I also think that a lot of these people harassing school boards aren't even parents with children enrolled in these school districts. Rather, they are traveling political activists pushing a racist agenda.
We didn't target parents in America, but the left is now in control.
The targets here aren't parents. The targets are people who have no business with these school boards.
Right after you provide evidence that the process 'targets parents' we can have that debate Vic.
As it is, all you have is Republicans making unfounded allegations.
I did. That's what the article was for.
Well then it's an utter failure Vic.
Surely you aren't positing that the blathering of Gym Jordon could possibly be considered evidence.
I'm still waiting for you to provide some evidence that parents are being targeted Vic. Your article only contains innuendo and unfounded assumptions.
Please proceed.
It does seem all to repetitive, doesn't it?
Sounds like the lefts turned the FBI into the Sturmabteilung.
Should parents who threaten other parents at school board meetings also be tagged by the FBI?
Now, now, you know this only applies to people that don't follow leftist dogma.
He is a merely a very concerned far leftist stating his extreme displeasure with those not agreeing with CRT. He has every right to be angry, and try to threaten and intimidate those that do not agree with him; he has suffered a lifetime of oppression due to systemic racism. He is not even on the DOJ's radar.
Also, only leftists are allowed to resort to violence. Democrats at every level have been proving that for the last two plus years.
You are correct.
I’m pretty sure most people are getting sick and tired of all the double standard BS.
MAGA is a social disorder.