Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
Internal emails from the Biden-era Department of Justice (DOJ) show that senior officials objected to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland’s plan to use the FBI to investigate parents opposed to school policies.
Critics at the time said the policy change, which was contained in a memo signed by Garland,was calculated to intimidate parents protesting policies such as mask mandates and curriculum. Many of those who protested the memo were themselves heavily criticized by memo supporters.
The DOJ’s internal communications suggest that top officials in the DOJ opposed the policy days before it was publicly unveiled.
A DOJ source who did not wish to be identified confirmed to The Epoch Times late on June 10 that the emails,postedon X by independent journalist Lara Logan, were authentic.
The controversy itself goes back almost five years. Garland released a memo on Oct. 4, 2021, that called for federal law enforcement to deal with harassment and threats of violence allegedly made against school board members, teachers, and school employees.
“Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values,” he said at the time.
“The Department takes these incidents seriously and is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate,” he wrote in the memo.
In an email thread dated two days before that, senior DOJ officials discussed the upcoming shift in enforcement focus.
Minutes after Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers advised his colleagues of the policy change, they began to push back.
Source: ZeroHedge News
