Rep. Jordan asked FBI Director Wray to answer for targeting people with what they called “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology.”
From National Review. FBI director Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning to address allegations from House Republicans that the federal agency has been politicized and is disproportionately targeting conservative Americans.
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Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), chairman of the committee, grilled Wray in his opening remarks, focusing particularly on a leaked FBI memo drafted by an unidentified agent targeting so-called “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology” as a hotbed of potentially violent extremism.
CatholicVote, an organization advocating for religious freedoms and protections, revealed hours before Wray’s appearance that a freedom of information request submitted to the FBI led the agency to insist that “the public is ‘not entitled’ to the records” pertaining to the anti-Catholic memo. …
“Americans have seen the FBI Richmond Field Office put together a memorandum saying pro-life Catholics are extremists,” Jordan told Wray during the FBI director’s first appearance since Republicans retook control of the House. …
Americans have “seen 20 FBI agents, SWAT team members, show up at the home of Mark Houck and arrest him in front of his wife and seven children even though he’d indicated he’d be happy to turn himself in.” …
“The FBI did rescind – thank goodness – the Richmond Catholic memorandum, but they refuse to tell Congress who wrote it and who approved it. And Mr. Houck, when he got his day in court, he was acquitted by a jury of his peers.”
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 12, 2023
“American speech is censored. Parents are called terrorists. Catholics are called radicals,” Jordan added.
In January, a former FBI agent published a memo created by the agency called, “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” …
During his opening statement, Director Wray sought to highlight the agency’s bipartisan goal of keeping the United States safe. …
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(Excerpt from National Review. Photo Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)