House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is claiming the original claim by the FBI that preparing to spy on Catholics was an isolated incident is false. In fact, Jordan claims, the FBI was coordinating with multiple offices, all of which seemed to be on board to spy on Americans for their religious beliefs alone.
The original memo had redacted information that Jordan now has access to that refutes that initial claim. Jordan, along with Congressman Mike Johnson (R-LA) sent a letter to the DNC operative Christopher Wray demanding to know why such key information was withheld from the House committee. They didn’t accuse them of lying under oath, but that is what appears to have happened.
They wrote, “[T]he newly produced version of the document explicitly states that FBI Richmond ‘coordinated with’ FBI Portland in preparing the assessment. Thus, it appears that both FBI Portland and FBI Los Angeles field offices were involved in or contributed to the creation of the FBI’s assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.”
Excerpt:
On Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) revealed that there were multiple FBI field offices involved in the drafting of a controversial memo outlining a plan for targeting Catholic Americans.
As the New York Post reports, the memo in question was originally thought to have been limited exclusively to the Richmond Field Office in Virginia. However, a less-redacted version of the memo, obtained by the committee last month, reveals that the Richmond field office had a “liaison contract” with the Portland Field Office, and also used information from the Los Angeles Field Office.
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