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Dec 11, 2023 6:25 AM
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Alabama Attorney General Criticizes FBI, SPLC Following New Report
WSFA (NBC-12) (12/08, Pitts) reported that "alarming" is how Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall describes a recent report on the FBI. The report is titled, The FBI's Breach ofReligious Freedom: The Weaponization ofLaw Enforcement Against Catholic Americans. According to the article, compiled by the Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, the 30-page report details concerns about a memorandum that was sent out FBI-wide. The committee says the memo cited biased and partisan sources like the Southern Poverty Law Center. The report claims the FBI memo painted so-called certain "radical-traditionalist Catholics" as violent extremists. Attorney General Steve Marshall reacted to the report on social media. The article quoted Marshall, who said, "Even during the Obama administration, the FBI disavowed the use of SPLC information, particularly around hate groups, and now, somehow or another, this administration is seemingly embracing a group that, frankly, is much more of an overt fundraiser than they are truly someone that cares about policy." The article quoted the SPLC, who said in a statement, "The House Judiciary Committee report does not allege that the FBI worked with the SPLC to target Catholics. In fact, the SPLC did not provide any information or communicate in any way with any FBI personnel involved in preparing this Richmond Field Office memo. The Committee report documents that the FBI used our website and other open-source resources to compile their report. On our website, we identify fringe Radical Traditionalist Catholic groups as hate groups because they are deeply antisemitic and subscribe to an ideological view rejected by the Vatican and 70 million mainstream Catholics in the United States."