These are the files that Democrats
do not want in the hands of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
The chair of the
House Judiciary Committee received the Biden-era Department of Justice
weaponization docs from the FBI. Its contents aren’t January 6-related,
but one that went underreported for years: the alleged crusade against
pro-life activists. Jerry Dunleavy of Just the News has more:
The FBI has handed over to Congress key documents related
to Biden-era “weaponization” scandals at the Justice Department
following a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim
Jordan.
[…]
Jordan’s late February letter to Patel said
that he “still has unanswered questions about how the FBI quickly
operationalized” Garland’s October 2021 memo which had directed the
Biden-era Justice Department and FBI to investigate alleged threats
posed by outspoken parents.
Jordan also had remaining concerns
about “whether the FBI objected to the civil liberties infringements
inherent in the Attorney General’s memorandum.”
Jordan revealed
whistleblower evidence in November 2021 which indicated that FBI
counterterrorism assets were involved in the investigation of parents
protesting school policies. He released an unclassified internal FBI
email at the time showing that the bureau's counterterrorism chief sent
instructions to FBI officials to use a "threat tag" to track any
complaints involving parents and school officials.
In January, Attorney General Pam Bondi used a little-noticed footnote to rescind Garland’s memo.
[…]
Jordan’s
letter to the FBI in late February that the bureau had refused for two
years to provide adequate answers on the FBI’s Richmond Field Office’s
January 2023 memo, which linked “racially or ethnically motivated
violent extremists” (RMVEs) with a “radical-traditionalist Catholic”
(RTC) ideology.
[…]
The FBI intelligence product released
in January 2023 by the bureau’s field office in Richmond contended that
links between RMVEs and RTCs “almost certainly presents opportunities
for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for
tripwires and source development.”
But the FBI’s national press
office admitted in February 2023 that “this particular field office
product…does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI” and claimed
that “upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters quickly began
taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a
review of the basis for the document.”
The field office’s
intelligence product repeatedly cited the left-wing Southern Poverty Law
Center, including an article on “Radical Traditional Catholicism.”
[…]
DOJ
Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote in 2024 that the FBI’s
Inspection Division concluded that “there was no evidence of malicious
intent or improper purpose” behind the local field office memo, but did
note significant problems with it, including that it "failed to adhere
to analytic tradecraft standards and evinced errors in professional
judgment, including that it lacked sufficient evidence or articulable
support for a relationship between RMVEs and so-called RTC ideology;
incorrectly conflated the subjects’ religious views with their RMVE
activities, creating the appearance that the FBI had inappropriately
considered religious beliefs and affiliation as a basis for conducting
investigative activity; and reflected a lack of training and awareness
concerning proper domestic terrorism terminology.”
We’ll see about the whole “no evidence of malicious intent or
improper purpose” part. The FBI also allegedly showed up at the homes of
left-wing pro-life activists, like Elise Ketch of Progressive
Anti-Abortion Uprising:
Transparency isn’t optional—it’s essential. pic.twitter.com/K3lscDxzSQ
— Kash Patel (@Kash_Patel) March 18, 2025
There’s a new sheriff in town under Kash Patel. The era of prevarication and obfuscation is over.
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