Weaponization Working Group
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Oct 16, 2026
Rob ManessHOST
Joining us today is Marshall Yatesy, Strategic Counsel at the Oversight Project and the leader of its REPAIR initiative, Redistricting Election Protection for American Integrity and Representation.
Rob ManessHOST
Yates previously served as assistant director of the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs, as the chief of staff on Capitol Hill, as executive director of the Election Integrity Network, and he's also worked on the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group, and is a staffer on the House Judiciary Subcommittee examining the weaponization of the federal government.
Rob ManessHOST
He now leads this nationwide litigation and oversight efforts to challenge who gets counted in the sentence and these maps in the census and these maps to protect the integrity of our representation.
Rob ManessHOST
Marshall, welcome to the Rob Maynard Show.
Jewels JonesHOST
25.
Jewels JonesHOST
It was published October 5th by the Weaponization Working Group, and the title of the release tells you exactly where the department landed.
Jewels JonesHOST
Report on the Garland memo that chilled parents' rights and warned parents could be domestic terrorists.
Jewels JonesHOST
You all remember this.
Barbara McQuadeGUEST
It's not about naming and shaming, that term that Ed Martin used.
Barbara McQuadeGUEST
Remember, he was the former chief of the Weaponization Working Group.
Barbara McQuadeGUEST
That's not the goal of the Justice Department.
Barbara McQuadeGUEST
The goal is to secure invic- convictions when the evidence is sufficient.
David FeldmanHOST
In other words, he examined their credit scores to make sure the checks would clear.
David FeldmanHOST
Ed Martin also headed the Department of Justice's Weaponization Working Group up until about March of this year.
David FeldmanHOST
The Department of Justice's Weaponization Working Group was in charge, it's still around, it's in charge of investigating, firing, and prosecuting anyone who was part of Joe Biden's weaponization of the Justice Department, which, so this charge goes, punished all of Biden's political enemies.
David FeldmanHOST
Yes, all the January Sixers, according to this current regime, all the January Sixers and Donald Trump were victims of lawfare.
David FeldmanHOST
The weaponization of the FBI and the Justice Department to punish Trump and his supporters just because they happen to be violent thugs who launched an insurrection against our government.
Jack RigertHOST
They issued alarming demands like, why is my second grader wearing a mask at recess? And what exactly is this book from? Some of them even unleashed their mom voices, which, as the squishy and effeminate men of the Biden administration and most of the country's fifth grade boys can attest, is at least comparable to a sort of chemical weapon.
Jack RigertHOST
Those mother voices, right? On Monday, the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group, now this is the Trump administration, released its second report about Merrick Garland's memo.
Jack RigertHOST
Merrick Garland was second to no one in the memo issuing spot.
Jack RigertHOST
He put out a lot of memos that we have.
Steve FriendHOST
You want to talk about yesterday's news.
Steve FriendHOST
This comes from actually the attorney general of the United States, who was very happy to report that the weaponization working group guys came out with another strongly worded letter slash report.
Steve FriendHOST
This comes from the A.J. Five years ago, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued an infamous memorandum at the urging of the National School Boards Association and the White House officials directing the FBI investigation and United States attorneys to consider looking for a federal hook to prosecute parents exercising their right to free speech.
Steve FriendHOST
And this is on the back end of another report that was just recently issued about the radical traditional Catholic memo.
Steve FriendHOST
This one is all about how the FBI used national security resources, counterterrorism resources, to investigate parents.
Steve FriendHOST
Well, what do we get? A 273-page report.
Steve FriendHOST
prepared by the department's weaponization working group.
Steve FriendHOST
I'll get the news report here.
Mary WalterHOST
They got away with it all.
Mary WalterHOST
The J- Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group reported Monday, yesterday, that the FBI opened 25 guardian assessments involving parents following Merrick Garland's memorandum addressing threats against school officials.
Mary WalterHOST
Yeah, so if you, if you yelled at a school board meeting or you said something they didn't like, you were deemed a threat, or if you were questioning DEI, if you were questioning, uh, boys and girls locker rooms, if you were questioning any of that stuff, you were deemed a threat.
Mary WalterHOST
And nobody cares about it now.
Chris MartensonHOST
Past programming has included pride songs for young viewers and a 2020 blackout of eight minutes and 46 seconds.
Chris MartensonHOST
In other news, the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group found that Merrick Garland's October 4th, 2021 school board memo originated from White House pressure and a National School Boards Association letter requesting that protests be treated as possible domestic terrorism.
Chris MartensonHOST
The FBI opened 25 Guardian assessments on parents.
Chris MartensonHOST
Internal messages described the effort as partisan and difficult to reconcile with the First Amendment.
Dave RubinHOST
They mocked the partisan payoff.
Dave RubinHOST
The messages were published by the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group.
Dave RubinHOST
"This is ridiculous," one unidentified official in Monaco's office wrote on September 25th, 2021.
Dave RubinHOST
"It's like they're affirmatively trying to make this thing not work and look political," an official in the criminal division added on October 2nd, 2021.
Keegan BillingsHOST
In an email criticizing the plan, one attorney said, "Stupid, stupid, stupid." Another said, "If they do this, they might as well rename the damn thing the Anti-MAGA Task Force." Now, AG Todd Blanche told us that much of his work and that of FBI Director Kash Patel has been to divert federal law enforcement back to the basics, such as eliminating drugs and cartels, uprooting fraud, and stopping violent crime.
Keegan BillingsHOST
Blanche said, "If prosecutors and agents are working on those types of crimes, they don't have time to meddle in places they shouldn't be meddling in." Now, according to the October fifth report by the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group, the twenty twenty-one plan was implemented despite the pushback and included efforts to tie protesting parents to threats against election officials, looping in the Public Integrity section of the DOJ.
Keegan BillingsHOST
The plan, stemming from coordination between the DOJ under former Attorney General Merrick Garland and the National School Boards Association, called on the FBI and other federal entities to form a task force to investigate parents who are objecting to hot-button issues, such as COVID-19 pandemic-era mandates, critical race theory education, and school transgender policies.
Keegan BillingsHOST
Okay, now let's move on to more news from the DOJ.
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