A coalition of Republican attorneys general led by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares expressed shock and outrage Friday at a leaked FBI memo that proposed investigating traditional Catholics for links to white supremacy.
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Miyares and 19 other Republican AGs said they were"horrified" to learn that the FBI's Richmond field office had circulated a report that linked"radical traditionalist Catholics" to white supremacists and violent extremism and said the agency should explore intelligence gathering in certain Catholic parishes.
Miyares and his 19 counterparts told Garland and Wray that they are"not persuaded" by the FBI's attempt to withdraw the memo following public outcry and media reports and expressed concern that the agency is surveilling and infiltrating houses of worship. In a statement to the Washington Examiner, a spokesman for the FSSP's North American headquarters said that religious order was"surprised" to hear of their inclusion in the FBI's memo linking them to white supremacy.
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