{"id":1995384,"date":"2023-08-09T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-memo-targeting-catholic-group-went-beyond-richmond-office-document-reveals\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:12:08","slug":"fbi-memo-targeting-catholic-group-went-beyond-richmond-office-document-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-memo-targeting-catholic-group-went-beyond-richmond-office-document-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI memo on Catholic group extended beyond Richmond office, reveals document."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-memo-targeting-catholic-group-went-beyond-richmond-office-document-reveals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Controversial Document Raises Concerns about FBI&#8217;s Actions<\/h2>\n<p>A recently obtained, \u2064less redacted version of a \u2062document issued by the FBI&#8217;s Richmond Field Office in\u200d January has sparked \u200bcontroversy. The\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-memo-targeting-catholic-group-went-beyond-richmond-office-document-reveals\/\" title=\"FBI memo on Catholic group extended beyond Richmond office, reveals document.\">document specifically targets<\/a> certain &#8220;traditionalist&#8221; Catholics associated with FBI offices in Portland and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The document, which links &#8220;radical-traditionalist Catholics&#8221; to violent extremism, relies on information from a &#8220;liaison contact&#8221; in the Portland Field Office and details from the Los Angeles Field Office.<\/p>\n<h3>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Expresses\u2064 Alarm<\/h3>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) expressed his shock at this version of \u2062the \u2062memo\u200d in a letter to FBI Director \u200bChristopher Wray. Jordan obtained the letter,\u200d in which he describes the information \u2062as &#8220;startling&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-blasts-biden-we-are-headed-for-border-chaos\/\" title=\"Rubio Blasts Biden: \u2018We Are Headed For Border Chaos\u2019\">raises concerns<\/a>\u200c about the FBI&#8217;s potential infringement on Americans&#8217; First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>During his testimony before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">committee<\/a> in July, Wray\u200b referred to the document as &#8220;appalling&#8221; and confirmed that it had been retracted. He also mentioned that an investigation into its creation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Wray testified, &#8220;As soon\u2063 as \u200cI found \u200bout about it, I\u2064 was \u200daghast and \u2062ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems. It was a single product by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-says-he-was-aghast-at-agency-memo-targeting-radical-traditionalist-catholics\/\" title=\"FBI Director shocked by memo targeting 'Radical Traditionalist Catholics'.\">single field office<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Justice\u2062 Department \u200cResponds<\/h3>\n<p>When asked for comment, a spokesperson for the Justice Department referred to Wray&#8217;s testimony and \u2063a subsequent letter he wrote to Jordan in July. In the letter, \u2062Wray offered to \u2064provide a briefing on \u2062the document to the Judiciary Committee on August 22.<\/p>\n<p>This story is still developing, \u200band \u200cfurther updates will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Read the less redacted\u2063 memo below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  [Insert less redacted memo here]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently obtained less redacted version of a controversial document from the FBI&#8217;s Richmond Field Office reveals its focus on &#8220;traditionalist&#8221; Catholics associated with FBI offices in Portland and Los Angeles. The document, obtained by the Washington Examiner, connects &#8220;radical-traditionalist Catholics&#8221; to violent extremism and relies on a designated &#8220;liaison contact.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1995385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}