A report published Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee said the FBI spied on a priest because he refused to discuss private conversations he had with a parishioner who was converting to Catholicism, which is “deeply troubling,” said Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C.
“If you look at the early steps of the FBI memo, what they did was they used radical dialogue from the Southern Poverty Law Center. They used Salon magazine in how they targeted Catholics,” Fry told Newsmax’s “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE.”
“They used those opinions as a basis to form this memo that targeted Catholics. … The priest was under investigation because he refused to give information to the FBI related to one of his parishioners.
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