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   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   
      
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