When a Republican congressman detailed COVID-era “cruelty” of school policies for kids and the shocking persecution of disgruntled parents as “domestic terrorists” by the FBI and DOJ, FBI Director Chr.
When a Republican congressman detailed COVID-era “cruelty” of school policies for kids and the shocking persecution of disgruntled parents as “domestic terrorists” by the FBI and DOJ, FBI Director Chris Wray reluctantly admitted the federal targeting had not been based on any solid evidence.
And the federal government wonders why Americans don’t trust them anymore.
The House Judiciary Committee held a July 12 hearing to hold Biden’s FBI Director Christopher Wray to some accountability. During the hearing, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) slammed school COVID-19 policies in 2021 and grilled Wray on the supposed justifications for FBI targeting of parents who complained about those school policies. The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) actually used counterterrorism tools to target parents unhappy with abusive COVID policies, according to congressional Republicans. Kiley got Wray to admit that the investigations into the supposedly “extremist” parents were launched without solid evidence to justify them.
When asked specifically if the FBI had evidence that “there was an increase in harassment and threats of violence” justifying investigation into dissatisfied parents, Wray confessed, “I’m not aware of any such evidence.” When Kiley then asked if it were true there’s been no observable increase in threats against school officials, Wray gave a rare straight answer: “Yes, sir.”
.@RepKiley slams draconian 2021 Covid measures in schools and calls out the Biden administration for targeting parents who complained pic.twitter.com/jMq3Bx6vTH
Catherine Salgado (@CatSalgado32) July 12, 2023
Kiley began his questioning by detailing some of the COVID policies to which parents objected. Schools, which had originally remained closed for months on end without solid reasons, instituted “draconian testing and quarantine regimes, such as one student is possibly exposed to COVID, everyone goes home for the week,” Kiley said. “Children as young as toddlers were subjected to harmful mask mandates that defied international norms,” he continued.
