... according to the DOJ and FBI?
The AGs state that after defining which Catholics are the dangerous ones, the memo proposes dealing with the bad Catholics through "the development of sources with access," including in "places of worship."
"In other words," the AGs write, "the memorandum proposes recruiting Catholics to enter a sacred house of worship, talk to their fellow Catholics, and report those conversations back to the FBI so that the federal government can keep tabs on the bad Catholics."
The memo cited a list of Catholic "hate groups" assembled by the Southern Poverty Law Center to allocate these "sources," according to the AGs.
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DOJ, FBI targeting Catholics as 'violent extremists' under scrutiny by state AGs: 'Bigotry' is 'festering'
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 of his GOP colleagues sent a letter Friday to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding answers for a leaked FBI memo that says the agency was targeting Catholics as "violent extremists."
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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 GOP state attorneys general are demanding answers from the FBI and Justice Department and threatening legal action after a leaked internal FBI memo revealed that the agency had efforts underway to identify and treat Catholics as "potential terrorists."
Miyares and his colleagues, in a letter exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, told the FBI and DOJ to "desist from investigating and surveilling Americans who have done nothing more than exercise their natural and constitutional right to practice their religion in a manner of their choosing" and asked that they "reveal to the American public the extent to which they have engaged in such activities."
"Anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs," the AGs wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
FBI Retracts Leaked Document Suggesting Traditional Catholics Are Radical Extremists
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Friday’s letter comes after an internal memo produced by the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, Field Office on Jan. 23, 2023, was leaked. That memo, according to the AGs, "identifies 'radical-traditionalist Catholic’ as potential ‘racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.’"
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The AGs state that after defining which Catholics are the dangerous ones, the memo proposes dealing with the bad Catholics through "the development of sources with access," including in "places of worship."
"In other words," the AGs write, "the memorandum proposes recruiting Catholics to enter a sacred house of worship, talk to their fellow Catholics, and report those conversations back to the FBI so that the federal government can keep tabs on the bad Catholics."
The memo cited a list of Catholic "hate groups" assembled by the Southern Poverty Law Center to allocate these "sources," according to the AGs.
DOJ, FBI targeting Catholics as 'violent extremists' under scrutiny by state AGs: 'Bigotry' is 'festering'
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 of his GOP colleagues sent a letter Friday to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding answers for a leaked FBI memo that says the agency was targeting Catholics as "violent extremists."
