FBI Faces Backlash Over Investigation into 'Radical-Traditional Catholics'

House Judiciary Committee Report Reveals FBI's Use of Counterterrorism Tools to Target Catholic Americans

The FBI interviewed a priest and choir director as part of an investigation into 'radical-traditional Catholics' as potential domestic terrorists, according to a report from the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
The FBI memo that sparked the investigation was based on a single case of a parishioner who self-identified as a 'radical-traditionalist Catholic'.
The FBI has maintained that the interviews were conducted in relation to an individual threatening violence who has since been arrested, and not as a broader investigation into Catholics.
The FBI memo was reportedly based on politically biased sources, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Salon, and the Atlantic.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has not fired anyone in connection with the creation of the memo, stating that those involved have been admonished and it will impact their annual performance reviews.