outlined, get this, a plan to spy on catholic churches. the memo from the f.b.i. s richmond field office suggested radical catholic ideology could lead to domestic terror. and that the f.b.i. sought to develop sources inside churches to report on any suspicious activity. house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan writing in the subpoena this information is outrageous and only reinforces the committee s need for all f.b.i. material responsive to our request. the documents produced to date show how the f.b.i. sought to enlist catholic houses of worship as potential sources to monitor and report on their parishioners. it s a chilling thought. the memo even drew criticism from the f.b.i. director ray himself. he condemned the memo when asked about it last month. when i first learned of the piece, i was aghast. as you should be. and we took steps immediately to withdraw it and remove it from f.b.i. systems. it does not reflect f.b.i. standards. we do not conduct inve
target. and we will see this become very hostile throughout the rest of the day. you want to bring in josh campbell. you know how the fbi operates. and talk about this issue of what they said was a memo that was written by an fbi agent in richmond, which suggested and radical catholic ideology. there was language that seemed they were they might put some folks in there to try to figure out what was going on. but that memo was taken down very quickly. can you give us a sense of how big of a deal, if you will, would one fbi agent s memo be to the entire bureau. so there s still a lot we don t know about that specific memo. the way this process works, field offices around the country, agents and naulss are responsible for knowing threats in their domain. they are responsible to ensure if there s a threat that they
outlined, get this, a plan to spy on catholic churches. the memo from the f.b.i. s richmond field office suggested radical catholic ideology could lead to domestic terror. and that the f.b.i. sought to develop sources inside churches to report on any suspicious activity. house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan writing in the subpoena this information is outrageous and only reinforces the committee s need for all f.b.i. material responsive to our request. the documents produced to date show how the f.b.i. sought to enlist catholic houses of worship as potential sources to monitor and report on their parishioners. it s a chilling thought. the memo even drew criticism from the f.b.i. director ray himself. he condemned the memo when asked about it last month. when i first learned of the piece, i was aghast. as you should be. and we took steps immediately