Whistleblower Delivers Documents Showing AG Merrick Garland Lied to Congress – Opinion

Rarely does anything in the news surprise me anymore, but consider today’s happenings an exception. An explosive new development is that a whistleblower has sent an email to Congress showing that Attorney General Merrick Grland lie under oath when he testified on Capitol Hill weeks ago.

As RedState reported at the time, Garland’s statements surrounding the targeting of parents as “domestic terrorists” simply did not add up, with his mix of denialism and unwillingness to address the issue only adding to the suspicion that the DOJ had and continued to act improperly.

Now, these new documents deliver a decisive blow to Garland’s previous assertion that the DOJ/FBI was not using the counterterrorism apparatus to target parents. These documents actually prove the contrary. that the counterterrorism division was not only involved (and presumably still is) but that it was being used to “tag” parents as potential threats.

🚨🚨🚨#BREAKINGA Whistleblower reveals explosive documents showing the FBI using counterterrorism tools to investigate parents pic.twitter.com/HpbdtinJQo

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) November 16, 2021

Here is Christopher Rufo’s email. He has been a leader in the fight for parental rights regarding schools and in particular against Critical Race Theory.

This is the smoking guns. There is no evidence from Attorney General Garland that parents engage in credible threats and acts of violence. Yet, Attorney General Garland mobilized FBI Counterterrorism Division for counterterrorism tools to investigate, track, and tag parents. pic.twitter.com/PHpVIqvlBw

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) November 16, 2021

The email specifically acknowledges that Garland’s directive, which itself was spawned by unfounded claims from the NSBA, was the catalyst for mobilizing the counterterrorism division to begin tagging threats. Things progressed so far as to have a special tag created specifically to target those opposing school boards and teachers called “EDUOFFICIALS.” From there, three tests are laid out in the email to further score the supposed threat.

By comparison, here’s what Garland had to say about the issue back in late October, where he clearly stated the DOJ and FBI were doing no such thing.

The clip shows AG Merrick Garland explaining to Congress that he could not envision any situation in which complaining parents about their school boards would lead to “labeled national terrorism”.

He lied pic.twitter.com/t3as9v1MLI

— American Principles 🇺🇸 (@approject) November 16, 2021

Rep. Jim Jordan spoke out in response, noting that Garland has some “explaining” to do.

“Merrick Garland testified that the FBI wasn’t targeting parents,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said. “We now know the FBI is “tagging” parents they consider threatening. The Attorney General has some explaining to do.”

Of course, Garland won’t actually have to explain anything because he is a completely unaccountable figure. Garland will not be indicted for lying to Congress. The Biden administration won’t lift a finger either. Our vaunted bureaucracies are the harsh reality that we now live in.

Certainly, there’s some serious irony in Garland running his mouth recently about the sanctity of the law in relation to charging Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress while at the same time Garland appears to have lied to Congress himself. Don’t ever let someone tell you that we don’t have a two-tiered justice system because we absolutely do.

As to the whistleblower who handed this email over, I hope they’ve got a good legal team because they are going to need it. Garland and his associates will respond in a furious fashion, further empowering an already overtly politicized DOJ. He is a fierce partisan, and for all his public meekness, the Attorney General doesn’t take it well to being revealed as a liar or hypocrite.

Lastly, I’ll just reiterate what I’ve said many times. It is not enough to reform the FBI and DOJ. They must be broken up.