Republicans on House Judiciary alarmed over new DOJ domestic terror office, targeting school parents
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Republicans on House Judiciary alarmed over new DOJ domestic terror office, targeting school parents
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, is requesting the Justice Department provide information about its new domestic terrorism office, considering the agency's plans last year regarding parents at school board meetings.
"The creation of this domestic terrorism office appears to contravene advice from career Justice Department officials, and raises serious concerns about how the Biden administration will use the new office in light of the Justice Department’s misuse of existing counterterrorism resources to target concerned parents at school board meetings," read a letter Thursday to the agency from Jordan and fellow committee Republicans Reps. Mike Johnson, of Louisiana, and Andy Biggs, of Arizona.
The lawmakers suggested the creation of the new office, with the agency's National Security Division, has spooked "longtime dedicated career lawyers" at the agency who believe it is "unnecessary and potentially harmful."
"The committee must fully assess the department's creation of a new office that could be misused to target American citizens," the letter also reads. "The department's documented misuse of existing counterterrorism resources to target American parents raised serious concerns that NSD could similarly misuse the new domestic terrorism office."
The new office was created in January.
Last fall, the National School Boards Association asked the Biden administration to conduct an an interagency investigation on threats of violence against school board members and said the threats "could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."
The request was amid heated school board meeting that largely focused on how education officials were addressing parents' concerns about how their children were being taught during the pandemic.
Attorney General Merrick Garland in turn, in October 2021, issued a memorandum to agency employees about intervening in incidents of violence or intimidation against local school board officials.
He later said the agency would not label parents as domestic terrorists, amid outrage over the NSBA letter and arguments that such issues should be address at the state and local level, which led to the group to say, "we regret and apologize for the letter. ... there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter."
The letter sent Thursday also requests documents and communications related to the creation of the new department, in addition to an explanation about why the department is purportedly being created against the advice of DOJ career officials.
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Not a problem, unless you terrorize office holders...
No one ever has in the context of recent current events and issues.
That simply is not true and you know it is not!
It is true and you know full well that it is.
Interesting. The biggest problems with the schools and the students arise from the parents.
The MAGA crap is destructive, obstructive and rooted in fear and ignorance. These people foul everything they come in contact with. Including the children.
Then secular progressive parents clearly should all have their children taken from them since parents are the biggest problem….
Not only is your statement absurd, it is also absurd.
It is also the definition of fascism.
Not anymore than this "Domestic Terrorism" office is...
Our government is targeting US citizens for voicing their opinions...
A government that views it citizens as the enemy to be silenced...
Secular progressive ideology is the definition of fascism in today’s America
Fortunately for society, secular progressive adults have fewer children than adults of other ideologies. The drawback is that they use the public schools and the school boards to poison and contaminate the minds of other people’s children.
I still have space for one more dictionary, when can I order yours?
Aw g'wan with ya, Texas doesn't have any books.
Self-declared enemies of the American state advocating taking children from parents based on fascist labelling of people as "secular progressive" are the biggest threat to the American way of life since at least the Civil War. Those self-declared enemies of the American state will be confronted and opposed by the American people at every turn. The American people will never allow such evil to succeed.
You're kinda touchy today.
Like Canada just did…