{"id":1472917,"date":"2022-05-12T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472917"},"modified":"2022-05-12T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:45:05","slug":"fbi-whistleblowers-accuse-bureau-of-probing-parents-as-terrorist-say-gop-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-whistleblowers-accuse-bureau-of-probing-parents-as-terrorist-say-gop-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Whistleblowers Accuse Bureau Of Probing Parents As Terrorist, Say GOP Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-whistleblowers-accuse-bureau-of-probing-parents-as-terrorist-say-gop-lawmakers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> whistleblowers say the bureau probed parents critical of woke school boards as domestic terrorists, in a claim that may contradict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/merrick-garland\">Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s<\/a> denials, according to two GOP lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, and Mike Johnson, of Louisiana, say \u201cbrave whistleblowers\u201d have come forward to say the bureau opened multiple probes all over the country as parents protested mask mandates, Critical Race Theory instruction, and other woke policies. In a letter to Garland, the lawmakers cited an\u00a0internal email from the bureau\u2019s criminal and counterterrorism divisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have learned from brave whistleblowers that the FBI has opened investigations with the EDUOFFICIALS threat tag in almost every region of the country and relating to all types of educational settings,\u201d the lawmakers wrote in the letter dated Wednesday. \u201cThe information we have received shows how, as a direct result of your\u00a0directive, federal law enforcement is using counterterrorism resources to investigate protected\u00a0First Amendment activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whistleblowers: The FBI has labeled dozens of investigations into parents with a threat tag created by the FBI&#8217;s Counterterrorism Division <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/STlLdrfbMz\">pic.twitter.com\/STlLdrfbMz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1524531122495012865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-fbi-counterterrorism-unit-tracking-threats-against-school-officials-school-boards-whistleblower-docs-show\">Garland directed the FBI\u2019s\u00a0counterterrorism bureau<\/a> to track alleged threats against school boards after the National School Boards Association called on the White House to probe parents\u00a0who allegedly threatened boards over woke policies and curricula. The directive prompted outrage from conservative groups who said concerned parents were being treated as domestic terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Garland, in sworn testimony before the Senate in October, assured lawmakers his memo did not instruct the bureau to open up investigations into local matters involving school boards and parents. The National School Boards Association apologized for its role in the affair amid accusations it had colluded with the White House to sic the DOJ on parents.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_381174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-381174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Jim Jordan accuses Attorney General Merrick Garland of sticking the FBI on concerned parents. (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAll [the memo] 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, provide federal assistance if it is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Jordan and Johnson, the FBI\u00a0labeled \u201cdozens\u201d of investigations with the threat tag \u201cEDUOFFICIALS,\u201d which the lawmakers say\u00a0contradicts Garland\u2019s congressional testimony denying parents were targeted under procedures reserved for counterterrorism.<\/p>\n<p>One alleged probe was launched after the FBI got a tip that a mom had threatened her local school board. The tipster \u201calleged that the mom was a threat because she belonged to a \u2018right wing mom\u2019s group\u2019 known as \u2018Moms for Liberty,\u2019\u201d and owned a gun. An FBI agent interviewed the unidentified woman.<\/p>\n<p>In another case cited in the lawmakers\u2019 letter to Garland, the FBI interviewed a tipster who admitted he had \u201cno specific information\u201d of any threat, but complained that a man who was opposed to a local school mask mandate \u201cfit the profile of an insurrectionist.\u201d The FBI opened an investigation into the man, according to the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan and John son also alleged that the FBI opened an investigation into Republican elected officials in an unidentified state simply because Democratic Party officials there accused Republicans of inciting violence \u201cby expressing public displeasure with school districts\u2019 mask mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In each of the cases Jordan and Johnson cited, the bureau ultimately determined no crimes had been committed. Still, the lawmakers said, the revelations show how Garland\u2019s DOJ was used to target concerned parents and their right to freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whistleblower information is startling,\u201d they wrote. \u201cYou have subjected these moms and dads to the opening of an FBI investigation about them, the establishment of an FBI case file that\u00a0includes their political views, and the application of a \u201cthreat tag\u201d to their names as a direct result\u00a0of their exercise of their fundamental constitutional right to speak and advocate for their\u00a0children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis information is evidence of how the Biden Administration is using federal law enforcement, including counterterrorism resources, to investigate concerned parents for protected First Amendment activity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI whistleblowers say the bureau probed parents critical of woke school boards as domestic terrorists, in a claim that may contradict Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s denials, according to two GOP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1472920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}