The FBI has handed over to Congress key documents related to Biden-era “weaponization” scandals at the Justice Department following a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.

FBI Assistant Director Marshall Yates sent a letter to Jordan on Friday vowing that “under Director Kash Patel's leadership, the FBI is dedicated to working with Congress towards transparency,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by Just the News, with the FBI official providing the House with internal bureau records tied to former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s divisive school board memorandum aimed at protesting parents.

The records also include the Richmond, Va., FBI field office’s since-retracted memo targeting Catholics, and the bureau’s controversial investigations enforcing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Jordan, who has long sought answers on “the weaponization of federal law enforcement against the American people” under former President Joe Biden, filed a subpoena with Patel’s FBI in late February, arguing that the bureau “refused any real transparency or accountability for its actions” during former Director Christopher Wray’s tenure and arguing that Wray had ignored several subpoenas Jordan had issued. 

The Ohio Republican argued to Patel last month that “it is important that you succeed in restoring public confidence and creating much-needed transparency.” The new documents the FBI handed over may be a step in that direction.

"We are thankful for Director Patel's work, and we will have more updates soon," Jordan's spokesman Russell Dye told Just the News.

The FBI said in its new letter that, in response to Jordan’s subpoena related to Garland's school board memorandum, “additional documents” from the bureau were being handed over, including “the FBI summaries of the outstanding ‘EDUOFFICIALS’-tagged Guardians not previously provided to Congress due to their then-ongoing investigative status or classification.” 

The FBI said that “one of these additional, now closed Guardians is classified and we will arrange delivery of this information with Committee staff at their convenience” but that “we have confirmed that there were no additional Guardians that have received the ‘EDUOFFICIALS’ threat tag since the FBI's prior productions to the Committee in August 2022.”

Jordan’s late February letter to Patel said that he “still has unanswered questions about how the FBI quickly operationalized” Garland’s October 2021 memo which had directed the Biden-era Justice Department and FBI to investigate alleged threats posed by outspoken parents. 

Jordan also had remaining concerns about “whether the FBI objected to the civil liberties infringements inherent in the Attorney General’s memorandum.”

Jordan revealed whistleblower evidence in November 2021 which indicated that FBI counterterrorism assets were involved in the investigation of parents protesting school policies. He released an unclassified internal FBI email at the time showing that the bureau's counterterrorism chief sent instructions to FBI officials to use a "threat tag" to track any complaints involving parents and school officials.

In January, Attorney General Pam Bondi used a little-noticed footnote to rescind Garland’s memo.

In last Friday’s letter, the FBI said that it had also handed over a “further response to the subpoena regarding the Richmond Field Office's Domain Perspective.”

Jordan’s letter to the FBI in late February that the bureau had refused for two years to provide adequate answers on the FBI’s Richmond Field Office’s January 2023 memo, which linked “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” (RMVEs) with a “radical-traditionalist Catholic” (RTC) ideology. 

The Republican chairman argued that “the Richmond memorandum resulted in federal law enforcement agents being inserted into places of worship.” Jordan said that the FBI under Wray “failed to produce information regarding open-sources, FBI case files, and liaison and local law enforcement reporting used to create the Richmond memorandum – all of which were responsive to the Committee’s subpoena.”

The FBI intelligence product released in January 2023 by the bureau’s field office in Richmond contended that links between RMVEs and RTCs “almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwires and source development.”

But the FBI’s national press office admitted in February 2023 that “this particular field office product…does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI” and claimed that “upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters quickly began taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a review of the basis for the document.”

The field office’s intelligence product repeatedly cited the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, including an article on “Radical Traditional Catholicism.” 

The Richmond field office also pointed to an Atlantic article on “How Extremist Gun Culture is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary.” And the local field office had also cited articles by Salon, including “Traditional Catholics and White Nationalist ‘Groypers’ Forge a New Far-Right Youth Movement” and “White Nationalists Get Religion.”

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote in 2024 that the FBI’s Inspection Division concluded that “there was no evidence of malicious intent or improper purpose” behind the local field office memo, but did note significant problems with it, including that it "failed to adhere to analytic tradecraft standards and evinced errors in professional judgment, including that it lacked sufficient evidence or articulable support for a relationship between RMVEs and so-called RTC ideology; incorrectly conflated the subjects’ religious views with their RMVE activities, creating the appearance that the FBI had inappropriately considered religious beliefs and affiliation as a basis for conducting investigative activity; and reflected a lack of training and awareness concerning proper domestic terrorism terminology.”

The FBI also told Jordan on Friday that it was handing over “information regarding investigations related to the FACE Act.” 

The bureau said that, since May 2022, “the FBI's counterterrorism and criminal divisions have investigated 55 acts that led to FACE Act-predicated investigations.” The bureau said that one investigation “involved a facility that provides abortion services, 31 involved a facility that provides pregnancy resources, and 23 involved a facility that provides both abortion services and pregnancy resources.”

Jordan’s late February letter had alleged that, under the Biden administration, “the FBI and the Justice Department implemented a double standard in enforcing the FACE Act in a way that protected anti-life activists and facilities while effectively ignoring attacks on pro-life advocates and facilities.” 

He also said Wray’s FBI “utilized aggressive law enforcement tactics to go after pro-life advocates that bordered on thuggish” as he demanded more information from the bureau.

Then-FBI Director Wray testified in August 2022 that the bureau had launched “domestic violent extremism investigations” into pro-abortion rights threats and attacks that increasingly targeted anti-abortion groups in the wake of the May 2022 leak of a draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.

President Donald Trump in January pardoned 23 pro-life activists who were convicted under the FACE Act.

Patel and the FBI handed over an initial tranche of documents in response to Jordan’s subpoena earlier in March, as first reported by Fox News, with those records reportedly relating to Garland’s school board memo, the failed investigation into pipe bombs planted in the nation’s capital the day before the January 6th riot, the bureau's interactions with social media companies, and the now-defunct Foreign Influence Task Force.

“Kash Patel’s FBI was given a mandate to open up the books and engage in transparency efforts at levels never before seen – and our Congressional Affairs team is stepping up to the plate,” FBI spokesman Ben Williamson told Just the News. “We will continue to work diligently with Chairman Jordan and Chairman Grassley to ensure the American people get the information they deserve.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the creation of a “Weaponization Working Group” in January with the goal of determining whether any actions by the DOJ or FBI appeared “to have been designed to achieve political objectives or other improper aims rather than pursuing justice or legitimate governmental objectives.” Bondi’s new group is also tasked with, among other things, specifically investigating the school boards memo scandal, the withdrawn anti-Catholic memo, and the FACE Act saga.