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FBI和司法部官员在组建该工作组时，就政治化问题和第一修正案权利表达了担忧
作者：罗伯特·施马德，福克斯新闻网
发布于 2026年10月5日 美国东部时间下午2:09
内部邮件曝光：司法部调查拜登任内所谓打压家长权利事件
福克斯新闻记者大卫·斯彭特详述了司法部对拜登政府时期所谓动用政府工具打压家长的调查。2021年10月的内部邮件显示，司法部高级官员对司法部长梅里克·加兰有关威胁学校董事会成员的备忘录感到不满，称其“愚蠢”，并提议将“反MAGA特别工作组”作为该行动的更名方案。美国全国学校董事会协会随后为其最初的信件道歉。
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司法部公布的文件显示，在家长抗议活动升温之际，拜登政府为打击所谓针对学校董事会成员的威胁所做出的努力，在司法部和FBI内部引发了持续的内部抵制。
“五年前，司法部长梅里克·加兰在全国学校董事会协会和白宫官员的敦促下发布了一份臭名昭著的备忘录，指示FBI和美国检察官考虑寻找联邦依据，起诉行使言论自由权利的家长，”布兰奇周一在X平台上发帖称，当天司法部发布了《揭露政府在学校中针对家长的武器化行为报告》。
“连同这份报告，我们还公布了数百份证物和邮件，正式证实并验证了许多美国人此前的猜测：加兰领导的司法部与白宫官员和全国学校董事会协会携手合作，压制言论自由和家长权利，同时威胁起诉家长并将他们贴上国内恐怖分子的标签，”布兰奇补充道。
2021年10月，司法部长梅里克·加兰发布备忘录，指示FBI和美国检察官与联邦、州和地方执法部门协调，处理其所称的“我国公立学校中针对学校董事会成员、教师和工作人员的骚扰、恐吓和暴力威胁上升”的情况，当时学校董事会会议上家长与校方的冲突不断升级。
特朗普时期司法部报告揭露拜登政府所谓反基督教偏见
美国司法部长梅里克·加兰于2021年4月26日在华盛顿特区司法部发表声明。(曼德尔·恩根/ pooled/Getty Images)
周一发布的司法部报告显示，加兰的备忘录遭到了司法部和FBI内部的强烈反对，官员们担忧此举会造成政治化、违反第一修正案保护措施，以及是否有足够的联邦依据进行干预。
该备忘录发布之际，大批家长在学校董事会会议上抗议，不满学校课堂上教授性别和种族相关内容的方式，以及新冠疫情期间的学习限制政策，这促使全国学校董事会协会(NSBA)向时任总统乔·拜登呼吁联邦援助，并警告称，部分抗议相关行为“可能等同于国内恐怖主义和仇恨犯罪”。
周一发布的司法部报告中详细披露的部分内部信息此前已被福克斯新闻数字频道披露并报道。在加兰的备忘录于2021年10月4日公开前发出的一条消息中，一名司法部副部长助理称，该行动——以及将其与司法部选举犯罪工作挂钩的提议——看起来政治动机极强，加兰“不如干脆把这个该死的工作组改名为反MAGA特别工作组”。与此同时，司法部公共诚信部门负责人称该提议“愚蠢”。
一名FBI反恐官员随后担忧，“国内恐怖分子”这一标签可能被套用在所有“反对学校董事会行动”的人身上，而司法部民权部门的一名律师指出，相关的大部分活动都受家长的第一修正案权利保护。
司法部起诉所谓学校“秘密性别转变”政策，该政策隐瞒家长信息
一名女性手持标语，在弗吉尼亚州阿什本的劳登县公立学校行政大楼举行的学校董事会会议上，劳登县学校董事会成员投票通过8040号政策。2021年8月11日。(里奇·卡里奥蒂/《华盛顿邮报》 via Getty Images)
报告显示，多名司法部官员指出，当前问题主要属于州和地方当局的管辖范围，并质疑是否有足够的联邦依据进行干预。
2021年10月4日备忘录发布并实施后，以及后续的余波中，对该行动的内部异议持续存在。
2021年10月5日，一名FBI律师称，司法部在发布该备忘录的新闻稿时未与该局协调。FBI刑事调查部（该局最大的业务部门）的副助理主管表示，“我们都对这一公告感到意外”，该公告“是司法部单方面推动的”。
随着司法部开始组建其特别工作组，反对声仍在继续。
尖锐报告揭露全国K-12团体的多元化、公平性和包容性议程如何渗透到地方学校
愤怒的家长和社区成员在劳登县学校董事会就批判性种族理论举行会议后举行抗议。(伊芙琳·霍克斯坦 路透社)
司法部国家安全部的副部长助理表示，他“看不出有必要设立这样的特别工作组”，司法部也不会“每次有团体认为自己受到威胁时，就成立一个针对性极强的特别工作组”。
当月晚些时候，国土安全部发布了一份简报，将教育工作者面临的威胁级别与人们对口罩、疫苗和批判性种族理论的强烈反对联系起来。一名FBI反恐官员抨击该威胁评估指南是一份“充满政治色彩的文件”，并表示希望FBI不要参与合作。
全国学校董事会协会最终为其在致时任总统乔·拜登的求助信中使用的语言道歉，该信请求包括司法部和FBI在内的部门采取行动。
“司法部的职责是保护美国人民免受暴力和暴力威胁，这尤其包括公职人员，”他在谈到该备忘录时说道。
2021年确实有一些学校董事会官员收到了线上和书面威胁，加兰做法的支持者援引这一事实为司法部的应对措施辩护。
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加兰目前担任合伙人的律师事务所阿诺德与波特，在周一被福克斯新闻数字频道联系置评时未予回应。
Biden’s ‘anti-MAGA task force’ sparked internal alarm across DOJ, new report shows
2026-10-05T14:09:45-04:00 / Fox News
FBI and DOJ officials raised concerns about politicization and First Amendment rights as the task force was assembled
By Robert Schmad, Fox News
Published October 5, 2026 2:09pm EDT
DOJ probes alleged Biden-era crackdown on parental rights, internal emails revealed
Fox News correspondent David Spunt details the Justice Department’s probe into alleged Biden-era government weaponization against parents. Internal emails from October 2021 show senior DOJ officials expressed discomfort with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memo concerning threats against school board members, calling it ‘stupid’ and suggesting an ‘Anti-MAGA Task Force’ renaming. The National School Boards Association later apologized for its initial letter.
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The Biden administration’s effort to combat alleged threats against school boards amid a wave of heated parent protests triggered sustained internal resistance within the Justice Department and FBI, documents released by the DOJ show.
“Five years ago, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued an infamous memorandum at the urging of the National School Boards Association and White House officials, directing the FBI and United States Attorneys to consider looking for a federal hook to prosecute parents exercising their right to free speech,” Blanche posted to X on Monday, when the DOJ released the “Report to Expose the Weaponization of Government Against Parents in Schools.”
“Along with the report, we’ve released hundreds of exhibits and emails that make official and verify what many Americans had guessed: the Garland DOJ worked hand in hand with WH officials and the National School Boards Association to chill free speech and parental rights while they threatened to prosecute parents and label them domestic terrorists,” Blanche added.
In October 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing the FBI and U.S. Attorneys to coordinate with federal, state and local law enforcement over what it described as an “increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools,” amid escalating clashes involving parents at school board meetings.
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers a statement at the Department of Justice on April 26, 2021, in Washington, DC.(Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images)
Garland’s memo drew significant internal pushback across the Justice Department and FBI, with officials raising concerns about politicization, First Amendment protections and whether there was a sufficient federal basis for intervention, according to the Justice Department report released Monday.
The memo followed throngs of parents protesting at school board meetings over dissatisfaction with how gender and race were being taught in classrooms and COVID-19-era learning restrictions, prompting the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to appeal to then-President Joe Biden for federal assistance and warn that some actions surrounding the protests “could be equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
Some of the internal messages detailed in the Justice Department’s report released Monday had been disclosed previously and reported on by Fox News Digital. In one message sent before Garland’s memo went public on Oct. 4, 2021, a deputy assistant attorney general said the operation — and proposals to link it to the DOJ’s election crimes work — looked so politically motivated that Garland “might as well rename the damn thing the Anti-MAGA Task Force.” The DOJ’s Public Integrity Section chief, meanwhile, called the proposal “stupid.”
An FBI counterterrorism official later raised concerns about the label “domestic terrorist” potentially being applied to everyone who “oppose school board actions,” while a DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney noted that much of the activity in question could be protected under the parents’ First Amendment rights.
DOJ LAWSUIT TARGETS ALLEGED SCHOOL ‘SECRET GENDER TRANSITIONS’ POLICIES THAT KEEP PARENTS IN THE DARK
A woman holds a sign as Loudoun County School Board members vote to enact Policy 8040 during a school board meeting at the Loudoun County Public Schools Administration Building on Aug. 11, 2021 in Ashburn, Va.(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Multiple DOJ officials noted that the problem at hand appeared to fall primarily within the jurisdiction of state and local authorities and questioned whether there was a sufficient federal basis to intervene, according to the report.
Internal dissent over the effort continued as the memo was implemented following its Oct. 4, 2021, release and during the resulting fallout.
On Oct. 5, 2021, an FBI lawyer claimed that the DOJ issued the press release accompanying the memo without coordinating with the bureau. The Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, the agency’s largest operational division, stated that “we were all caught off guard by this announcement,” which was “unilaterally pushed by DOJ.”
As the DOJ began assembling its task force, objections persisted.
BLISTERING REPORT EXPOSES HOW NATIONAL K-12 GROUP’S DEI AGENDA IS TRICKLING DOWN TO LOCAL SCHOOLS
Angry parents and community members protest after a Loudoun County School Board over critical race theory.(Evelyn Hockstein via Reuters)
The Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s National Security Division stated that he didn’t “see the need for a task force like this” and that the Justice Department doesn’t “start a narrowly focused task force every time some group believes they are the subject of threat.”
Later that month, the Department of Homeland Security circulated a brief linking the threat level facing educational workers as tied to heightened opposition to masks, vaccines and critical race theory. An FBI counterterrorism official slammed the threat assessment guidelines as a “politically charged paper,” expressing his desire that the FBI not collaborate.
NSBA ultimately apologized for the language used in its letter to then-President Joe Biden seeking federal assistance, including action by the Justice Department and FBI.
“The obligation of the Justice Department is to protect the American people against violence and threats of violence and that particularly includes public officials,” he said of the memo.
Some school board officials did receive online and written threats in 2021, a fact supporters of Garland’s approach cited in defending the Justice Department’s response.
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Arnold & Porter, the law firm where Garland now serves as a partner, did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.
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