Exclusive | Biden DOJ given repeated advance warnings about notorious school board memo, new docs show

Several top law enforcement officials expressed misgivings about the Biden administration Justice Department’s notorious Oct.4, 2021, memo targeting parents protesting at school board meetings, new documents reveal.Then-FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jay Greenberg raised concerns with the DOJ that the department was not on the same page as investigators in the bureau regarding that memo, internal communications obtained by America First Legal and shared with The Post show.“We have some concern with the attached and would like additional time to engage with you before this messaging is released,” Greenberg wrote to then-DOJ officials Iris Lan and Kevin Driscoll on Oct.

4, 2021.“I would ask for any assistance you can provide in helping us get time to find common ground we can all support.”It’s not fully clear what specific qualms Greenberg had.

Emails from the time indicate that they may have had a call.The conservative legal group got ahold of the documents after a Freedom of Information battle with the DOJ.The memo came against the backdrop of parent protests at school board meetings raising frustrations with COVID-19 pandemic policies, classroom instruction of critical race theory and more.

Those protests came after many parents had been stuck at home with their children and got a great peek into what they were being taught.In the memo signed by then-US Attorney General Merrick Garland, the DOJ vowed to crack down on protests, claiming there had been a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.”GOP critics quickly argued that it sounded like the DOJ was targeting conservative parents.On Oct.

8, 2021, Garland’s chief of staff raised concerns internally about a call he got from Jonathan Thompson of the National Sheriffs Association, noting that he had “not heard any concerns about threats to local school boards.”Thompson pressed the DOJ about why...