RALEIGH — Documents provided by an employee at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) appear to show the agency using counterterrorism tactics on parents, according to a letter sent by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Jordan sent two letters, one to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and one to the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray.
In his letter to the FBI, Jordan describes the whistleblower documents and outlines the FBI’s apparent use of “threat tags” being used by the FBI to compile reports and which potentially could target and categorize parents as threats.
“On October 20, 2021, the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division sent an email to an ‘FBI_SACS’ listserv ‘on behalf of’ the FBI’s Assistant Director for the Counterterrorism Division, Timothy Langan and the Assistant Director for the Criminal Division, Calvin Shivers,” Jordan wrote in the letter to Wray. “The email, which is enclosed, referenced the Attorney General’s October 4 directive to the FBI to address school board threats and notified FBI personnel about a new ‘threat tag’ created by the Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions.”
The threat tag described by Jordan and the whistleblower document is “EDUOFFICIALS.”
“The email directed FBI personnel to apply this new threat tag to all ‘investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrators, board members, teachers, and...
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