FBI offices ‘coordinated’ on Catholic targeting memo, House GOP claims
internal memo suggesting traditionalist Catholic groups were potential hotbeds of domestic extremism, two Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee alleged Wednesday.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government Chairman Mike Johnson , which asked Wray “why you redacted this information in previous versions of the document you produced to the Committee.” The memo was titled, “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”
Jordan sparred with Wray over the matter during a testy House Judiciary hearing last month, during which the FBI chief insisted the memo was a “single product by a single field office.”“As soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems,” the director repeated to Jordan.sought by the Judiciary Committee under the specter of a contempt threat.
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