Re: FBI Whistleblowers Claim Agents Investigated Parents Accused of Threatening School Boards over Mask Policies

[Just Kill The Protesters]

In article <rsb12d$fkt$1...@neodome.net>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Democrats are stupid criminals.

No argument here.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans claimed in a letter on
Wednesday that the FBI conducted investigations into Americans
based on allegations that they threatened local school boards,
citing whistleblowers from the agency.

The FBI’s counterterrorism bureau reportedly created an internal
“threat tag” in fall 2021 to track alleged threats against
school boards following an October 4 directive from Attorney
General Merrick Garland. Garland released his directive after
the National School Boards Association called on the Biden
administration on September 29 to investigate parents who
allegedly threatened boards over policies on school masks and
critical race theory, and to determine whether the parents had
violated the Patriot Act or hate crimes laws. (The NSBA
subsequently apologized for releasing the letter.)

The FBI labeled “dozens” of investigations with the threat tag
“EDUOFFICIALS,” Representatives Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Mike
Johnson (R., La.) claimed in their new letter on Wednesday,
citing FBI whistleblowers. Jordan and Johnson wrote that the new
revelations contradicted Garland’s congressional testimony
denying that parents were intentionally targeted under
counterterrorism procedures.

One investigation allegedly began after the FBI received a tip
that a mom had told a local school board, “We are coming for
you.” The complaint “alleged that the mom was a threat because
she belonged to a ‘right wing mom’s group’ known as ‘Moms for
Liberty,’ and because she is a ‘gun owner,'” the congressmen
wrote. An FBI agent reportedly interviewed the the mom, who said
she was upset about a school mask mandate and wanted to elect
new board members.

In another instance, the congressmen wrote that an FBI agent
interviewed a tipster who admitted he had “no specific
information or observations . . . of any crimes or threats.” The
tipster had submitted a complaint against an anti-mask-mandate
dad, claiming that the dad “fit the profile of an
insurrectionist,” and the FBI had opened an investigation into
the dad.

The congressmen also claimed that the FBI began an investigation
into Republican elected officials in a certain state because a
Democratic state-party official claimed that the Republicans
“‘incited violence’ by expressing public displeasure with school
districts’ mask mandates.”

It was not immediately clear how the investigations were
resolved.

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-whistleblowers-claim-agents-
investigated-024910174.html