FBI interviewed priest, church choir director ahead of anti-Catholic memo, House GOP finds
Panel found 'no legitimate basis' for the memo inserting federal law enforcement into Catholic churches
By Brooke Singman Fox News
Published December 4, 2023 4:13pm EST
FIRST ON FOX: The FBI interviewed a priest and a church choir director as part of its investigation into traditional Catholics, a House Weaponization Committee report obtained by Fox News Digital revealed, while determining that subpoenaed documents show that there "was no legitimate basis for the memorandum to insert federal law enforcement into Catholic houses of worship."
The House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been investigating the FBI’s categorization of certain Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists after an FBI Richmond internal memo, titled "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities."
That memo, which was leaked in January, identified "radical-traditionalist Catholic
" as potential "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists" and said that "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development."
But according to the report, first obtained by Fox News Digital Monday, the committee found that the FBI "abused its counterterrorism tools to target Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists."
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