And the plot thickens.
Newly released emails show that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona was behind the letter sent last September from the National School Boards Association which requested federal intervention against parents protesting at school board meetings, comparing them to “domestic terrorists,” the New York Post reports.
An email shows that on October 6, NSBA Secretary-Treasurer Kristi Swett told NSBA board member Marnie Maraldo that Chip Slaven, then serving as interim CEO of the organization had admitted to fellow officers that “he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by Secretary Cardona.”
The email was obtained based on a public records request by Parents Defending Education and shared with the Post. This provides a smoking gun tying the letter directly into the Biden administration.
On September 29, Slaven wrote Biden and suggested parents objecting to mask mandates, as well as opposed to the teaching of critical race theory in schools were engaging in “a form of domestic terrorism”.
He asked the administration to “examine appropriate enforceable actions,” including the use of the PATRIOT Act, legislation enacted in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks ostensibly to protect against international-based terrorist attacks on the homeland.
On that same day, the Post said, Slaven told fellow NSBA officers that he had been “in talks over the last several weeks with White House staff” who “requested additional information on some of the specific threats.”
Meanwhile on October 4, just two days before the exchange between Swett and Maraldo, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Department of Justice would unleash federal law enforcement assets such as the FBI to take the lead on looking into that he referred to as “a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers and staff.”
All of this despite the fact that these incidents were hardly the norm, rather the exception.
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