Attorney General Merrick Garland was grilled on a controversial memo targeting during a congressional hearing in which he acknowledged it wasn't rescinded.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX, probes AG Merrick Garland on the status of his memorandum to the FBI regarding parents' uprising in school board meetings.
Roy pressed Garland on whether the memo directing the FBI to use counterterrorism tools relating to parents speaking out at school board meetings against K-12 curriculum and agendas with which they disagreed – such asand gender ideology-related policies in schools. After Roy repeatedly asked Garland whether the memo was rescinded, the attorney general finally acknowledged that it wasn't.
The memorandum was initiated after the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Biden in September 2021 asking for parents protesting at school board meetings to be federally looked into, claiming school officials were facing threats and violence at meetings. Most significantly, the NSBA requested in its original letter that parents' actions should be examined under the PATRIOT Act as"domestic terrorists.
"I am a father who deeply cares for his daughter … I am not a ‘domestic terrorist,'" Smith said."The NSBA defamed me, impugning my reputation and that of other concerned parents who dared challenge our local school board."