FBI allegedly targeted parents via terrorism tools despite AG Garland's testimony that it didn't happen: Rep. Jordan
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, called the FBI’s alleged move to target parents who protested schools' COVID policies "scary stuff" on Sunday and said it looks like Attorney General Merrick Garland had been misleading on the topic.
Jordan and fellow Republican Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., said last week that they have evidence that the FBI targeted parents who spoke out against schools' policies despite assurances from Garland that it never happened.
In a letter addressed to the Garland, Jordan and Johnson said they have evidence that the FBI labeled dozens of investigations into parents with a threat tag created by the bureau’s Counterterrorism Division to assess and track investigations related to school boards. The evidence comes from "brave whistleblowers" within the Department of Justice, they said in the letter.
During an exclusive interview on "Sunday Morning Futures," Jordan explained why it looks to him like Garland was misleading, arguing that "the very apparatus they put in motion with his memo that sets up the line for reporting, then the email that went out from FBI agents to agents all across the country, that process was used to go after moms and dads."
He told host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that there were "more than two dozen cases."
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