FBI head Chris Wray lied about targeting Catholics — He owes America answers

FBI Director Christopher Wray has some main explaining to do. 

In latest Congressional testimony, he insisted {that a} January 2023 memo suggesting his company’s sources be used towards Americans for the crime of — gasp! — being religious Catholics was a “single product by a single area workplace,” particularly the Richmond area workplace. 

That declare’s been given the lie by a newly surfaced model of the memo displaying it to be the product of a number of workplaces, together with Portland and Los Angeles. 

That was conveniently redacted from the model of the memo he introduced to the Senate Intelligence Committee in July. 

Home Judiciary Committee members Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Johnson (R-La.) are demanding solutions from Wray, and rightly so — together with communications between the sector workplaces concerned in creating the memo, in addition to data on an company worker seemingly concerned in efforts to infiltrate Catholic teams. 

Wray, on the time, had the audacity to shed crocodile tears over the memo: “As quickly as I came upon about it, I used to be aghast.”

Not aghast sufficient to ensure each workplace concerned was held to account, nevertheless. 

And his alleged outrage didn’t cease him from presenting a doc deceptively redacted to match his narrative to Congress. 

Check out a number of the supposed crimes of the folks the feds needed to surveil and infiltrate due to their non secular beliefs:

• Harboring disdain for Pope Francis.
• Rejecting the theological precepts of the Second Vatican Council.
• Criticizing pro-choice advocates on Twitter.

Actually bone-chilling, proper? There’s merely no method such actions needs to be allowed!

Truly, thank goodness in America, every considered one of them is protected by the First Modification. 

Which is why, in fact, the FBI issued a lame, pathetic denial after the brand new memo got here to gentle and Judiciary began urgent: “We don’t conduct investigations based mostly solely on non secular affiliations or practices, or every other First Modification protected exercise.” 

Unsuitable! You do. It’s proper there, in black and white. 

So Jordan and Johnson are useless proper to demand extra from Wray. 

He owes full solutions not solely to the Congress however to the whole American folks.