FBI Whistleblower Claims DOJ Used Counterterrorism Tools against Parents in Response to School-Board Memo

Citing an internal email provided by an FBI whistleblower, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed Tuesday that the Bureau has created a system to track threats against school board officials and administrators, and accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of misleading lawmakers when he was asked about the subject during his previous testimony before the committee.

The FBI’s “Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions created a threat tag, EDUOFFICIALS, to track instances of related threats,” according to the email. “The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective engagement with law enforcement.”

The email was signed by Counterterrorism Division assistant director Timothy Langan, and former Criminal Division assistant director Calvin Shivers, who retired earlier this month.

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote that the whistleblower email “provides specific evidence” that federal law enforcement employed counterterrorism tools “against concerned parents.”

The FBI denied that it has targeted parents in a statement to the Wall Street Journal.

“The FBI has never been in the business of investigating parents who speak out or policing speech at school board meetings, and we are not going to start now,” the agency said. “The creation of a threat tag in no way changes the long-standing requirements for opening an investigation, nor does it represent a shift in how the FBI prioritizes threats.”

The disclosure comes after the National School Boards Association released a letter in September calling on federal agencies to investigate whether alleged threats to school-board members constituted a domestic terrorist threat. The NSBA cited alleged threats made in opposition to masking policies and “propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory” in schools.

Garland directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices on October 4 to investigate threats against school boards following publication of the letter, which the NSBA apologized for on October 22. The attorney general testified on October 21 that the Department of Justice and FBI were not using counterterrorism tools to investigate the alleged threats.

“I do not think that parents getting angry at school boards for whatever reason constitute domestic terrorism,” Garland said at the time. “It’s not even a...

Hidden on Page 1,647 of Biden's Spending Bill Is a Plan That Could Give Billions of Dollars to Illegals

It’s not hard to hide things in a 2,135-page document, and that is exactly what the Democrats tried to do in their new spending bill.

It has already been quite a fight for the Biden administration to get Democrats to back the $1.75 trillion bill. There was disagreement over the timing of the bill and its relation to the rest of the president’s Build Back Better plan.

But now the discovery of a provision, tucked on page 1647, may cause even more disagreement over the legislation.

The provision would end the requirement of a Social Security number in order to get child tax credits. This would mean that billions of dollars could be doled out in child tax to credit to just about anyone. Illegal immigrants would be able to claim child tax credits with this new provision.

“No credit shall be allowed under this section to a taxpayer with respect to any qualifying child unless the taxpayer includes the name and taxpayer identification number of such qualifying child,” current law regarding child tax credits stipulates.

Steven Camarota, a researcher with the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News he estimates that repealing this requirement could lead to about an extra $2.3 billion in payouts to illegal immigrants for child tax credits.

Camarota also estimated a big payout for all the illegal immigrants who have U.S.-born children.

“[W]e estimated that illegal immigrants would receive $8.2 billion in cash payments from the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC), which is part of budget reconciliation bill, also referred to as the Build Back Better (BBB) Act,” Camarota wrote for CIS.

This massive spike in payouts is also a result of the new program increasing the child tax credit maximum payment.

“The new program significantly increases the maximum cash payment, which is referred to as...

Morning Mistress

The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #841

Before You Click On The "Read More" Link, 

Please Only Do So If You Are Over 21 Years Old.

If You are Easily Upset, Triggered Or Offended, This Is Not The Place For You.  

Please Leave Silently Into The Night......

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1541

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

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BEASTMODE: Boebert Lets Loose on Swalwell, ‘Jihad Squad Member’ Omar

Girls With Guns

The Leftist Goal Is Merely To Achieve The Perfect Citizen....

As The Necromancer Grows In Power And Control, We Must Journey Out And Conquer This Totalitarian Evil.

As grey traces of dawn tinge the eastern sky, the three travelers, men of Willow Dale, emerge from the forest shadow. Fording the River Dawn, they turn south, journeying into the dark and forbidding lands of the Necromancer. Even now the intensity of his dread power can be felt, weakening the body and saddening the heart. Ultimately they will become empty, mindless spectres. Stripped of will and soul. Only a thirst for freedom gives them hunger for vengeance…

Silence shrouds the forest

As the birds announce the dawn

Three travelers ford the river

And southward journey on

The road is lined with peril

The air is charged with fear

The shadow of his nearness

Weighs like iron tears

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #68

 

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #67

Kyle Rittenhouse Asked To Step Outside And Defend The Courthouse While Verdict Is Read...

 

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A Hollow Kind of Freedom

If you haven’t figured it out yet, you are the final check in our Constitution’s checks and balances. Get up, there’s work to do!

Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a pre-dawn raid on the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of the investigative journalism organization Project Veritas. The FBI was reportedly searching for a diary allegedly stolen from Ashley Biden, daughter of Joe Biden. The diary, which up until that point had not been authenticated, reportedly contained allegations of sexual improprieties within, and among, the Biden family.

Project Veritas had received the diary from an unknown source. After unsuccessfully attempting to authenticate the document, the organization decided not to report on the contents, subsequently turning the diary over to the police. At 6 a.m. on Saturday, November 6, the FBI raided O’Keefe’s home, handcuffed him in his underwear, and seized his cell phones and other electronic media. Less than a week later, the FBI leaked the contents of O’Keefe’s electronic devices to the New York Times, which is a defendant in an already existing defamation lawsuit brought by O’Keefe and Project Veritas.

Exactly why the FBI felt the need to conduct a pre-dawn raid on a journalist, then leak the contents of the material it seized, is unknown. O’Keefe was fully cooperating with law enforcement regarding the diary and was not a threat or a suspect in a crime. Instead, the predawn raid appears to be a blatant effort at intimidation and harassment of an investigative journalist who has repeatedly exposed the corruption of Washington’s ruling class. The raid violated O’Keefe’s First and Fourth Amendment rights and sent a strong signal to other journalists that crossing the Biden regime will have undesirable consequences.


Separately, in the ongoing saga of the January 6 political prisoners, on November 2 the U.S. Marshals Service said it would remove 400 federal inmates from the Washington, D.C. jail after a surprise inspection revealed the jail did not meet minimum correctional facility standards. These January 6 prisoners are in pre-trial confinement for misdemeanor charges—held without bail on the basis of their political affiliation. In some cases, prosecutors have claimed they are a threat to public safety because they are veterans of the U.S. armed forces. (Let that sink in—because they are veterans who served this country, they are being denied their constitutional rights.)

The U.S. Marshals and civil rights attorneys are now conducting a review of D.C. jail operations after District Judge Royce Lamberth referred the January 6 prisoners’ treatment to the Justice Department for a civil rights investigation. Earlier in October, Lamberth had placed top officials in the U.S. Department of Corrections in contempt for routinely violating the rights of the January 6 prisoners. Lamberth accused the officials of denying medical care to the prisoners and preventing them from meeting with their attorneys or reviewing legal discovery documents. The January 6 prisoners have claimed brutal treatment from D.C. jail corrections officers to include beatings, withholding food and water, and punitive solitary confinement.

Last week, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal court injunction against Biden’s vaccine mandate. Biden’s original vaccine mandate covering businesses with over 100 employees was the subject of a temporary injunction after Attorneys General from Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah challenged the statutory and constitutional legitimacy of the mandate. Following the injunction, Biden ordered businesses to ignore the court order and proceed with the mandate or face...