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Memo Confirms National School Board Group Was ‘Actively Engaged’ with White House While Drafting ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Letter
National Review ^ | 11/11/2021 | Caroline Downey

Posted on 11/11/2021 9:03:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Internal documents released Thursday confirm that the National School Boards Association coordinated with the White House before formally sending a letter to the Biden administration requesting federal intervention to probe and potentially prosecute parents for threatening school administrators.

In an October 12 memo , obtained by the nonprofit Parents Defending Education, NSBA president Viola Garcia stated that the organization had been “actively engaged” with federal departments including the White House, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, before sending their letter to the president.

Chip Slaven, NSBA’s interim executive director, wrote in a September 29 email that the letter, which characterized parents as potential “domestic terrorists,” was revised to include details of “specific threats” at White House staff’s urging. As a result, the NSBA letter cited 24 local news outlet items detailing “threats” parents leveled against school board members, the vast majority of which did not constitute criminal threats.

In response to the letter, which the NSBA has since apologized for, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a Department of Justice order mobilizing the FBI to coordinate with federal law enforcement to target parents deemed to be engaging in “threatening” behavior against school board members.

“In talks over the last several weeks with White House staff, they requested additional information on some of the specific threats, so the letter also details many of the incidents that have been occurring,” Slaven said in the email.

During a September 14 meeting, the executive directors of the group’s state chapters were notified that the NSBA had spoken with the White House about the letter that same day, Garcia claims in her memo. While the state chapters appear to have been given some advanced warning that a letter requesting federal intervention would be sent, they do not appear to have been given any specifics regarding the harsh language that would be used.

In addition to the state chapters being left in the dark, some members of the board of directors of the NSBA say they were not consulted or involved in the decision either, correspondence shows. Twenty-four NSBA state chapters distanced themselves from the letter amidst widespread condemnation from parents, and at least 12 state groups have formally disaffiliated from the parent organization.

Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, believes that Slaven and Garcia acted unilaterally and without the board’s consent in sending President Biden the letter.

“The NSBA board was not briefed. This was totally rogue,” she said.

In an October 11 email , Andrea Messina, executive director of the Florida state school board association, told Beverly Slough, a member of the NSBA board of directors, that she did not recall Slaven ever mentioning any communication with the White House during the September 14 meeting.

Referring to the headquarters’ plea for federal assistance to investigate parents, Messina said: “I do not recall his asking them for help at all and, like you, believe that even if I had missed it one of my colleagues would’ve picked up on it.”

In her reply, Slough affirmed that the board of directors were not clued in to the White House–NSBA collaboration. “As expected. I just cannot believe this part at all. Inconceivable that none of you would have referenced such a communication in all the back and forth,” she said.

In response to Garcia’s explanatory October memo, Pam Doyle, another member of the board of directors, pressed her on why the members of the board were left out of the loop.

“The members questioned why they were not consulted on the contents of the letter as well as the board’s involvement, or lack thereof. If I read the above paragraphs correctly, the origin of the letter began September 14th with a meeting with the White House staff, but fails to specify who met with the White House staff,” Doyle says.

Speaking on behalf of the board, Doyle also demanded to know which specific individual was behind the letter to the Biden administration and under what authority that individual sent it.

“It goes further to say ‘NSBA’ was preparing a letter to send to the President, failing once again to state the person that was preparing the letter, only an entity – NSBA. The members asked specifically who wrote the letter, by what authority the letter was written, and who or how many states asked for federal intervention. This letter fails to adequately answer the specific questions about the lack of input from the members and Board in the letter to the President,” Doyle concludes.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; bidenvoters; bloggers; collusion; dhs; dissent; doj; donutwatch; education; fbi; freespeech; merrickgarland; nationalrepuke; nsba; oppression; policestate; schoolboard; schoolboards; terrorism
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To: TigersEye

Yes they are


21 posted on 11/12/2021 1:52:17 AM PST by antceecee
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To: Texas Fossil

Thx for the heads up.


22 posted on 11/12/2021 3:06:32 AM PST by Liz (le Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side does n't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

My pleasure.

The Media will never put the pieces together. They hate the truth being revealed as much as their #ComDem pals.

The only way it get exposed, is if the few conservative media sites and the people themselves force this to stop.


23 posted on 11/12/2021 3:16:21 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: SoConPubbie
"They apparently believe they are impervious to the consequences of their actions"

Yeah, and so far they've been right..

24 posted on 11/12/2021 4:22:51 AM PST by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: SeekAndFind
EVERY state level School Boards Association has to be continually called on the carpet until they break ties with the National School Boards Association.

Continuing to support any association that labels concerned parents as domestic terrorists is a crime.

25 posted on 11/12/2021 4:25:19 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

You have to pair this article with the one from above about the President of the Arizona school board who had compiled full records on parents who opposed CRT. These included divorce and financial records.

The DOJ, like the FBI, and NSA, and CIA, are full on using their power for political reasons. They are taxpayer funded government organizations that are really no longer accountable to the people. Trumps biggest success was demonstrating that we are now a government of the government, by the government, for the government.


26 posted on 11/12/2021 4:27:47 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: SeekAndFind

Collusion
RICO


27 posted on 11/12/2021 4:29:10 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: TigersEye

“So how did your country become a totalitarian state?” “Slowly at first, then all at once.”


28 posted on 11/12/2021 4:34:42 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: SoConPubbie

The devil’s minions.


29 posted on 11/12/2021 4:47:16 AM PST by NeverTyranny
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To: Liz

Notice the speed this was organized at.
This indicates they are highly organized and have truckloads of money to throw at it.
The GOP-e spends years talking about an issue and then sends a memo.


30 posted on 11/12/2021 4:52:40 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Our Department of Education minions must be studying the history of The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (German: Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, RMVP or Propagandaministerium),


31 posted on 11/12/2021 5:31:10 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: SeekAndFind

the Marxist way - infiltrate every organization and once the door is cracked keep inching it open until Marxism rules. It is very successful. Compare social and government aspects in 1960 and 2021. It’s two different countries. Is that good or bad?


32 posted on 11/12/2021 5:38:17 AM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: Bookshelf

h/t Bookshelf

Herr Biden’s Department of Education is quite conversant w/
“The Third Reich’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda”

(German: Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, RMVP Propagandaministerium),


33 posted on 11/12/2021 6:28:44 AM PST by Liz (le Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side does n't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: SeekAndFind

NSBA and teachers unions basically colluded with Brandon to provide a fake dossier to allow Bitter leftist Merrick Garland to weaponize the DOJ. This is all known fact and I want House hearings in January 2023. In fact, I want 2022 candidates to PLEDGE they will have hearings on this.


34 posted on 11/12/2021 6:31:25 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: JennysCool

They have so much power at their disposal they don’t have to be as intelligent as run of the mill rogues.


35 posted on 11/12/2021 2:21:58 PM PST by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: Paladin2
Lock them up.

Who’s going to do that? The leftist / communist plague extends from the White House to local law enforcement

36 posted on 11/13/2021 4:24:53 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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