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During the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on a memo out of the Richmond, Virginia field office that called for the bureau to insert spies into the local Catholic Church to monitor “radical traditionalist Catholics.” Instead of being appalled that anyone at the FBI would think that was acceptable, the cast of CNN’s News Central and Inside Politics were appalled that Jordan would bring it up, even defending the idea.
Despite Wray explaining that he shot the idea down the moment he saw the memo, CNN felt compelled to defend the idea anyway. News Central co-host Sara Sidner teed up former FBI official Josh Campbell to explain why spying on the Catholic Church in Richmond was needed.
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