WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined America’s Newsroom on Fox News to discuss his oversight revealing the Biden-era Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) anti-Catholic Richmond Memo was widely distributed to over 1,000 FBI employees across the country.
Grassley additionally exposed a second FBI memo drafted for Bureau-wide distribution that repeated the unfounded link between traditional Catholicism and violent extremism. The memo was never published due to backlash following the Richmond Memo’s public disclosure in 2023.
Video and excerpts of Grassley’s remarks follow.
On the DOJ’s Investigation into President Biden’s Autopen Use:
“I think that the President made a wise decision that the Department of Justice ought to get to the bottom of it...and the American people are entitled to know what the truth is… I'm sure that Pam Bondi will get to the bottom of it.”
On Grassley’s Richmond Memo Oversight:
“We found out that 13 other documents went out, and at least 1,000 people had access to information that, presumably, was following up on some things that the Southern Poverty Law Center was telling people that the Catholic Church needed to be watched because it could be considered a terrorist organization. And, just even that charge in and of itself, is ridiculous. And you’d think that a responsible FBI director would make sure that that shouldn't be followed up [on].”
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