Biden's 'anti-MAGA task force' sparked internal alarm across DOJ, new report shows

Fox News ^ | 5 October 2026 | Robert Schmad

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

The Biden administration’s effort to combat alleged threats against school boards amid a wave of heated parent protests triggered sustained internal resistance within the Justice Department and FBI, documents released by the DOJ show.

"Five years ago, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued an infamous memorandum at the urging of the National School Boards Association and White House officials, directing the FBI and United States Attorneys to consider looking for a federal hook to prosecute parents exercising their right to free speech," Blanche posted to X on Monday, when the DOJ released the "Report to Expose the Weaponization of Government Against Parents in Schools."

"Along with the report, we’ve released hundreds of exhibits and emails that make official and verify what many Americans had guessed: the Garland DOJ worked hand in hand with WH officials and the National School Boards Association to chill free speech and parental rights while they threatened to prosecute parents and label them domestic terrorists," Blanche added.

In October 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing the FBI and U.S. Attorneys to coordinate with federal, state and local law enforcement over what it described as an "increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools," amid escalating clashes involving parents at school board meetings.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; groomers; grooming; obama; politicisation; schoolgroomers; schoolgrooming; war

[BenLurkin]

National School Boards Association

[lurk]

We may be safe in maintaining that Mr Biden did not conceive of or initiate this effort.

[abigkahuna]

Would they have gone so far as to jail those deciding to run for school board postions?

[KingLudd]

“Garland’s memo drew significant internal pushback across the Justice Department and FBI, with officials raising concerns about politicization, First Amendment protections and whether there was a sufficient federal basis for intervention, according to the Justice Department report released Monday.”

Significant internal pushback = probably 2 or 3 decent people had a problem with it. Everybody else was thrilled with it. Who was controlling Garland?

[Sicon]

National School Boards Association of Democratic Socialists of America

[Freedumb]

I hate Mitch the Chinese Turtle McConnell but thank God he had whatever his reasons were for blocking the appointment of Garland to the Supreme Court.

[drypowder]

Apparently no one will ever be held accountable for weaponizing the US Government against the very people who pay for it. What would our founding fathers do?

[jettester]

Cue another “sternly written letter”.....

[jettester]

Cue another “sternly written letter”.....

[Zathras]

Same thing Clinton did with the Tea Party.
Infiltrate and then destroy.

[Republican Wildcat]

Garland’s memo drew significant internal pushback across the Justice Department and FBI, with officials raising concerns about politicization, First Amendment protections and whether there was a sufficient federal basis for intervention, according to the Justice Department report released Monday.

This is indeed significant...I'm sure it will be the leading news story on every evening news cast highlighting the abuses of power in the Biden administration and targeting of ordinary citizens' free speech rights... < / s >

[Texas Eagle]

Anti-Make America Great Again. Yep, they sure did that for 4 years. Was it only 4 years? It felt like 20.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

I was called a Tea Party nut who watches Fox News by leftists.

[Seaplaner]

In October 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing the FBI and U.S. Attorneys to coordinate with federal, state and local law enforcement over what it described as an "increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools," amid escalating clashes involving parents at school board meetings.

I'm not an expert, so I don't know, but I do wonder ... how alike/different all this is to the Gestapo of Hitler's Germany?

[Maskot]

Exactly! That administration and all its minions were absolutely thrilled to go after anyone conservative for anything at any time. Period. And then blame “droolcup” Biden. That this tidbit comes out now screams CYA. Lie and deflect.

In other words, business as usual for the spooks