EXCLUSIVE — An FBI official responsible for overseeing a controversial document targeting certain Catholics appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday to testify on the matter.
Stanley Meador, a special agent in charge at the FBI's Richmond Field Office, spoke with the committee for several hours in a behind-closed-doors interview, according to two sources familiar with the interview.Meador was named in a letter the FBI wrote to the committee on April 28 as an official involved with handling the fallout from the document, which included retracting it and meeting with Catholic leaders from the area about it, according to one of the sources.
In a footnote on the document, an unidentified analyst clarified that"radical-traditionalist Catholics" make up a"small minority of overall Roman Catholic adherents." They are characterized by"disdain" for popes elected after the Second Vatican Council and"frequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology," the analyst noted.
It was “a single product by a single field office, which as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems,” Wray testified. “This new information suggests that the FBI’s use of its law enforcement capabilities to intrude on American’s First Amendment rights is more widespread than initially suspected," committee Chairman Jim Jordan wrote, adding that it also revealed"inconsistencies" with Wray's testimony from July.
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