FBI's Damage Control on Investigation of Parents Makes Things Even Worse
By Nick Arama | Nov 17, 2021 8:15 PM ET
We reported yesterday that an FBI whistleblower had leaked some disturbing information to Congress. The information was an email showing that, contrary to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s testimony before Congress that the DOJ/FBI wasn’t treating parents objecting to school board actions as “domestic terrorists,” their Counterterrorism unit was in fact involved in looking into the issue, and putting “threat tags” on all “investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrations, board members, teachers, and staff.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded that Garland answer why this was different from Garland’s prior testimony, and asked that he come back before Congress to explain all this.
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The FBI responded and, in so doing, they did themselves more harm than good. They tried to argue this was standard practice and that parents objecting to school actions were just like drug or human traffickers.
“A tag is merely a statistical tool to track information and for review and reporting. The creation of a threat tag in no way changes the long-standing requirements for opening an investigation,” the FBI released in a statement. “Nor does it represent in a shift in how the FBI prioritizes threats. The FBI has used tags to track everything from drug trafficking to human trafficking.”
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https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/11/17/fbis-damage-control-on-investigation-of-parents-makes-things-even-worse-n477678
