The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Attorney General Merrick Grland on October 27. At that hearing, Attorney General Merrick Garland was quizzed about his Oct. 4, memo which announced an investigation into allegations of threats to school boards. Critics believe this was an attempt to intimidate parents questioning radical education of their children at school.
One of the concerns raised about Garland’s memo was that it relied on a letter from the National School Boards Association (NSBA). The letter mentioned parental criticisms as domestic terrorist. Senators asked Garland for data, but Garland could not provide it. He also claimed that the DOJ wasn’t looking at parents as domestic terrorists and that he was just trying to determine the extent of the problem.
A whistleblower sent a U.S. Attorney’s letter to Congress confirming that the FBI Counterterrorism Unit was pursuing the endeavor and that they used designated threat tags to categorize threats at schools. This made it clear that it was being investigated as terrorism contrary to Fauci’s claims.
Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are now demanding that Garland come back and testify again, citing the whistleblower letter and the contradictions with Garland’s testimony.
Senate Judiciary GOP calls upon AG Merrick Garland to testify before them again: “We remain deeply concerned that your October 4 Memorandum is being used by the DOJ and the FBI as a basis to pursue investigations against American parents for First Amendment-protected activities.” pic.twitter.com/yMrnJ8iuCu
— Jerry Christmas 🎄🎅🏽 (@JerryDunleavy) November 30, 2021
They called Garland’s testimony “deeply misleading.”
“The FBI should be going after mobsters, not soccer moms. Attorney General Garland has told one story but the actions of some in the Department of Justice tell another,” said Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., in an exclusive statement to Fox News. “He needs to return to the Judiciary Committee and give clear answers to the American people.”
In a letter Monday, Sasse and others requested Garland clarify his remarks and suggested they conflicted with information from an FBI whistleblower and U.S. attorney’s office. [….]
“During your testimony on October 27, you told the Senate Judiciary Committee that your Memorandum was merely about ‘setting up meetings,’” the lawmakers added.
“You stated that the ‘purpose of this Memorandum is to get our law enforcement to assess the extent of the problem’ and that the Memo ‘comes before investigations.’ When asked why the DOJ was treating parents at school boards as domestic terrorists, you said: ‘[m]y Memo says nothing about domestic terrorism, says nothing about parents committing any such things.’”
The next step is to take back Congress and hold those responsible. This is an excellent start to help build a better record and push Garland to get more information. They have him trapped in what is a big contradiction when he says he hasn’t classified it as terrorism, yet here is the Counterterrorism Unit looking into it. It’s hard to argue around that contradiction.
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