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House Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday over a leaked memo from the agency that detailed plans to investigate “radical traditionalist” Catholics. He argued the scheme was entirely motivated by “politics.”
The now-retracted memo, which originated from the Richmond, Virginia, FBI field office, was leaked in February and revealed a scheme to target devout Catholics. The office “had used information from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center to guide the crafting of the memo,” as Breitbart News reported.
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When Jordan asked Wray to define “radical, traditional Catholics,” Wray said that he was “aghast” to learn of the memo “and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems.”
He claimed it “was a single product by a single field office.”
Jordan pressed Wray to allow the Oversight Committee to interview the FBI employees of the Richmond office who crafted the memo, but the director said the agency is “working on finishing an internal review” and that he would brief the committee later this summer. He did not commit to revealing the names of those responsible for the memo when Jordan asked.
