Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said that the FBI is "infiltrating churches" in America and "trying to spy on us." He added that the law enforcement agency, head by Director Christopher Wray, apparently views "church-going Americans as akin to terrorists."
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(CNSNews.com) A Jan. 23 FBI memo showing that the agency was targeting "Radical-Traditionalist Catholics" as potentially "violent extremists" was condemned by the Catholic bishop of Richmond this week, who said the document was a "threat" to the "constitutionally protected free exercise of religion."
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A whistleblower on Wednesday revealed that the FBI’s Richmond field office was bundling Traditional Catholics into an anomalous group known as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVEs).