Posted on 01/11/2022 9:30:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
While the battle over education has settled back into the trenches over the last few months following Glenn Youngkin’s big win in Virginia, we are beginning to learn more about how parents became so demonized.
As RedState reported at the time, the NSBA sent a letter to the DOJ that urged action against parents speaking out at school board meetings under the guise of the Patriot Act. The DOJ then used that letter as justification to use its counter-terrorism division to add “threat tags” to parents.
But as bad as that was, today’s news makes it all the worse. While we knew that the White House “consulted” on the letter, that was apparently completely underselling the government’s involvement. In reality, the NSBA did not send that letter organically out of its own concern. Rather, Joe Biden’s Department of Education solicited the letter.
This per Fox News.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the much-criticized letter from the National School Boards Association that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists, according to an email exchange reviewed by Fox News.
The email exchange indicates Cardona was more involved with the letter’s creation than previously known.
President Biden’s Department of Justice relied on the NSBA letter, which suggested using the Patriot Act against parents, in creating its own memo directing the FBI to mobilize in support of local education officials.
On the Oct. 5 email, NSBA Secretary-Treasurer Kristi Swett recounted that NSBA interim CEO Chip Slaven “told the officers he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by Secretary Cardona.”
The implications here are massive, though, as per our usual arrangement, there will not actually be any consequences for the bad actors who perpetrated this. Still, it’s astonishing to put it all together.
Think about it. The Biden administration solicited an inflammatory letter from the NSBA complaining about parents being domestic terrorists, urging the government to crack down on them. Then the DOJ used that letter, which originated with the Biden administration, as proof of the need to use counter-terrorism tactics against parents.
In other words, this was an inside job from the beginning. The administration manufactured “evidence” in the form of soliciting a letter in order to justify itself going after parents. In saner times, that would be impeachment worthy, or at the very least, heads would roll for all those involved in such a scheme. Unfortunately, this will be just another blip on the radar that fades away for our stalwart media.
Some Republicans have commented, including Josh Hawley, who proclaimed today that the “truth emerges” following the release of the report. Others have remained stubbornly silent on what was one of the decisive issues in the ground-shaking Virginia election. The GOP has to take this kind of thing seriously, and as a political issue, siding with parents against an overbearing government is a winning strategy.
For their part, you can expect the Biden administration to obfuscate about this revelation, and that’s if any reporter has the guts to even ask about it. Regardless, what the White House did was an insane abuse of power, and they should be held accountable, even if that means their punishment doesn’t come until the midterms.
Neither ‘Brandon’ or Kam are smart enough to have formed this idea. I would be looking at the next ten people around ‘Brandon’. One of them is going to head toward the exit by the mid-term election, and get dragged back for House hearings in January/February. For 2023, this will probably a top ten embarrassment for the DNC.
Leftist overlords do not like parents getting in the way of indoctrinating our children.
I assumed Craig Livingstone was behind the whole thing.
bttt
The Federal government belongs in Gitmo.
Cardona is a far left neo-MARXIST who is a threat to our educational system just like the NY City commissioner of education Cammarona or something like that. Anti-America culture/education to the core. (The NY Post detailed his subversion of that city’s educational system).
No. What PROVES they are so insanely stupid and self-centered in their liberal communist playground is the fact that ALL of the players in the FBI, NSBA, White House and staffs wrote this plan out in emails.
My God people!Make simple phone calls. Meet them in a public park during lunch. Go for a stroll in Fort Marcy park after dark, after leaving Hillarys office with her angry at you! Use a parking garage across the river.
I should just being a Democrat embarrassment enough.
About as accurate and apt a description of liberals as any I've ever heard.
Sorry. Left out the word ‘’think.
-PJ
Witness the ditzy Bidung “thinking” (if you can call it that)......
<><>his f/u exit left savage Taliban terrorists w/ billions in tax paid US weaponry and materiel
<><> the dingbat NOW plans to gift the savages w/ over $300 million tax dollars..........
Yet, the dork connived to target these same taxpayers, concerned parents, as “domestic terrorists.”
The implications here are massive.....Fox News reports:
Bidens Secy of Ed Miguel Cardona actually solicited the NSBA letter that compared concerned parents to domestic terrorists,
An email exchange indicates Cardona was more involved with the NSBA letter’s creation than previously known.
Biden’s DOJ relied on the NSBA letter, directing the FBI to mobilize in support of local education officials.
On the Oct. 5 email, NSBA Secretary-Treasurer Kristi Swett recounted that NSBA interim CEO Chip Slaven told the officers he was “writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by Secretary Cardona, which suggested using the Patriot Act against parents.”
Equally as disturbing as this rank abuse of power is the fact that we are so inured to this, the media is so in the tank with this, and the Congressional committees that should fulfill their constitutional roles in this but not only won’t, but openly thumb their nose at their constitutional duties with open contempt...and nothing at all can be done for another year at least.
Nothing.
The abuse of power and trust is one thing. The openly contemptuous departure from functions of government and rule of law is another thing altogether.
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Look no further than the bureaucratic cesspool who actually run and are destroying the non-compliant.
The abuse of power and trust is one thing. The openly contemptuous departure from functions of government and rule of law is another thing altogether.
Well said.
100% impeachable offense. Soliciting justification for going after parents critical of their marxist agenda.
My congress critters are getting phone calls this am. I suggest everyone else do the same.
This is stalin territory.
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