Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 other Republican state attorneys general expressed “outrage and alarm” Friday following the Feb. 8 leak of an internal FBI memo that characterized Catholics as “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.”
Seeking answers, Miyares pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland for information on how the memo came to exist.
“We are the chief legal officers of our respective States charged not only with enforcing the law, but also with securing the civil rights of our citizens,” Miyares noted in a Feb. 10 letter to the officials.
“The FBI must immediately and unequivocally order agency personnel not to target Americans based on their religious beliefs and practices,” he continued. “We also demand that the FBI produce publicly all materials relating to the memorandum and its production.”…