Tag: Education

“On one occasion, Seraphin said he was compelled to divulge information in 2021 when Attorney General Merrick Garland said to elected officials that the Department of Justice was not singling out parents who were protesting at school boards. Seraphin provided a member of Congress an email that the FBI was circulating among its ranks. The email said that Garland ordered the activation of the PATRIOT Act to single out parents with a tag titled “EDUOFFICIALS.”

“Garland issued an Oct. 4, 2021, memo ordering the FBI to aid local officials with threats against school officials. That followed a National School Boards Association letter to President Joe Biden asking that he look into acts of ‘domestic terrorism’ at school board meetings — a reference to angry parents complaining about issues such as mask mandates and critical race theory.”

“The California Teachers Association (CTA) employed a researcher who emailed a parent arm of the local union in April 2021, hoping to dig up information on the motives of San Diego County parents who had successfully sued the state to reopen schools a month earlier.”

“As you may recall, the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to White House last September which asked for a review of threats against school board members and which suggested the Patriot Act could be used against parents who were compared to domestic terrorists.”

“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.”

“An FBI whistleblower has revealed that ‘dozens’ of investigations into parents voicing their opposition to topics ranging from Critical Race Theory to mask mandates were investigated using a “threat tag” created by the agency’s counterterrorism division – directly contradicting Attorney General Merrick Garland’s 2021 testimony denying that the Department of Justice had been weaponized.”