The House Judiciary Committee has released an interim staff report showing that the Biden administration and the FBI manufactured a false narrative of Catholic Americans as violent extremists.

New documents obtained by the Committee show that the 2023 Richmond memorandum from former FBI Director Christopher Wray that described traditional Catholics as “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists,” wasn’t an isolated incident.

Commenting on Report: How the Biden-Wray FBI Manufactured a False Narrative of Catholic Americans as Violent Extremists,” Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said, “we now know that the Biden Admin’s targeting of Catholics was worse than we thought.”

The report also details how the Biden-Wray FBI put more federal law enforcement resources into surveilling Catholics than was previously known, including spying on a priest, relying on radical open source material from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center and attempting to violate priest-penitent privilege.

Investigators also discovered several internal FBI documents which used derogatory terms like “radical traditionalist catholic” or “Radical-Traditionalist Catholic” between 2009 and 2023.

According to a Judiciary Committee press release, these new findings make it clear that both former president Biden and former FBI Director Wray withheld key information from the committee since the beginning of the 118th Congress.

Jordan also lauded current FBI Director Kash Patel, stating, “With Director Patel’s commitment to transparency, the Committee will continue its oversight to inform legislative reforms to protect American’s religious liberties from government overreach.”