AG Merrick Garland appeared visibly angered when asked during the DOJ Oversight Hearing Wednesday if his agency is biased against traditional Catholics.
“Do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists, yes or no?” Van Drew subsequently pressed.“Attorney General, I control the time. I’m going to ask you to answer the questions I ask,” Van Drew said.“Attorney General, though the chair, I ask you: Do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists?” Van Drew repeated.
“I have no idea what ‘traditional’ means here,” Garland said before becoming visibly angry. “The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous – so absurd that you would ask me that question.”that that his family members were victims of religious persecution in Europe, and two of his grandmother’s siblings were murdered in the Holocaust.
“It was your FBI that did this. It was your FBI that was sending – and we have the memos, we have the emails – undercover agents into Catholic churches,” Van Drew continued. Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies during a hearing of the House Committee on the Judiciary oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 20, 2023. Garland and Van Drew then proceeded to speak over each other, with Van Drew repeatedly asking, “Are they extremists or not, attorney general?”Van Drew also asked Garland whether anyone was fired for drafting or circulating the anti-Catholic memo.
“This revelation raises the question of why you redacted this information in previous versions of the document you produced to the Committee,” the letter states. It also charges that the new information “raises concerns about the accuracy, completeness, and truthfulness” of the director’s testimony and invites him to “amend” it “to fully explain the nature and scope of the FBI’s assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.
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