A House panel examining the weaponization of government uncovered the interviews and the role of at least one undercover agent as part of a congressional probe into the FBI’s recent targeting of traditional Catholics.
Subpoenas issued in the investigation, House lawmakers said, revealed that the FBI "singled out Americans who are pro-life, pro-family, and support the biological basis for sex and gender distinction as potential terrorists."
According to the House Judiciary subcommittee on the weaponization of government, the FBI’s interviews with a priest and choir director were used to inform on a parishioner under investigation who self-described as a "radical traditionalist Catholic."
FBI employees in the bureau’s Richmond, Virginia, office where the probe originated could not define the meaning of radical traditionalist Catholic, but "this single investigation became the basis for an FBI-wide memorandum warning about the dangers of ’radical’ Catholics," House lawmakers said Monday.