by ZeroHedge News Staff at ZeroHedge
When the FBI was busted targeting Catholics in a now-retracted leaked document which said Roman Catholics were ‘at risk of committing acts of extremist violence,’ the agency downplayed it as the work of a ‘rogue field office.’
Now, thanks to a less-redacted internal FBI document released Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee, we learn that the effort was far more widespread than the agency acknowledged.
#BREAKING: Subpoenaed document reveals that the FBI Richmond Field Office coordinated with MULTIPLE field offices across the country to produce a memo targeting traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists
Wray previously said the actions were limited to “a single field office.” pic.twitter.com/5vyS2EXpml
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) August 9, 2023
Now, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wants more details.
In February, a whistleblower leaked a heavily redacted January report from the FBI’s Richmond office: “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”
The document defined “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as those who attend Latin Mass and, according to the FBI, adhere to “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology,” based on what the WSJ editorial board called half-baked “open-source” reporting from liberal news outlets to justify further investigation:…
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