BREAKING: Explosive New Documents Expose One of the Biggest Scandals of the Biden Presidency

“We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist.”

Explosive internal emails obtained by America First Legal confirm what many long suspected: former Attorney General Merrick Garland greenlit the targeting of concerned parents under the guise of combating “domestic terrorism.”

For years, former Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden Department of Justice claimed that a controversial October 4, 2021 memo directing the FBI to investigate threats against school boards was a routine matter.

But newly released documents show a rushed, politically driven response coordinated at the highest levels of DOJ—sparked not by legitimate threats, but by a letter from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) accusing parents of terrorism.

The scandal all began on September 29, 2021, when the NSBA sent a letter to President Biden requesting federal help to address alleged harassment and threats directed at school officials. The letter irresponsibly suggested that parents protesting school curricula that included controversial topics, such as gender politics and critical race theory, might be engaged in “domestic terrorism.”

The White House took notice. Just hours later, internal DOJ emails show top officials scrambling for a justification to act. Tamarra Matthews-Johnson, counsel in the Attorney General’s office, flagged the letter for the Deputy Attorney General’s office. Kevin Chambers responded:

“We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist.”

From there, the pressure escalated.

Sparkle Sooknanan—then with the Associate Attorney General’s office and now a federal judge—emailed DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys asking them to identify, over the weekend, any laws they could use to address the NSBA’s concerns.

One Civil Rights Division attorney was blunt: “It seems that we are ramping up an awful lot of federal manpower for what is currently a non-federal conduct.”

In other words, they saw no lawful basis for federal involvement.

Others shared similar warnings. One attorney explicitly said that the NSBA’s claims didn’t justify DOJ action and that there was no statute to stop parents from exercising their First Amendment rights at school board meetings.

Despite these objections, by the morning of October 4, a draft of Garland’s memo was already circulating. Internal emails show that DOJ leadership edited the draft to remove language about election integrity—fearing it might appear “partisan”—but left in the core directive to investigate parents.

Interestingly, these messages were shared via Signal.

Later that day, Garland issued the now-infamous memo, instructing the FBI and U.S. Attorneys to coordinate with local law enforcement in investigating threats against school officials.

America First Legal summarized the situation this way:

“Despite numerous DOJ career attorneys independently raising serious concerns... political leadership at DOJ—including now Judge Sparkle Sooknanan—pushed forward and published the memo anyway.”

They added:

“This memo blindsided several of the components charged with implementing it, confirming our prediction that the normal clearance process was bypassed or corrupted.”

The bottom line? The federal government’s top law enforcement agency mobilized against American parents—many of them simply speaking out at school board meetings—not to protect safety, but to suppress dissent.

This scandal is yet another case of the Biden administration’s authoritarian and anti-American abuse of power and its violation of the trust of the American people.

If there is any justice, current Attorney General Pam Bondi will start prosecuting those officials who dared to break our laws and degrade our institutions.