apologized for a letter in which it equated concerned parents with "domestic terrorists" and urged the FBI to investigate them via the Patriot Act.
This about-face has left the Department of Justice in a tight spot.Indeed, just one day before the NSBA rescinded its letter, U.S.
Attorney General Merrick Garland testified to Congress that he had directed the DOJ and FBI to investigate parents in reliance on the original NSBA letter.The since-retracted letter was startling in its request for federal law enforcement oversight of concerned parents.
Specifically, the NSBA requested that the DOJ, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service and the Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center all be deployed against parents.