Glenn Youngkin Slams Joe Biden for FBI Memo Targeting Pro-Life Catholics

Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, expressed shock at the FBI Richmond bureau’s memo on “radical-traditional Catholic ideology” that cited the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center and demanded “full transparency and accountability” in the FBI’s review of how the bureau compiled and published the internal report.

The FBI memo urged agents to probe the supposed nexus between “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” and “radical-traditional Catholics,” citing the SPLC and including a list of SPLC-designated “hate groups” for agents to target.

Some of Virginia’s representatives in Congress also addressed the memo—which the FBI announced it would remove from its database last week—although Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., did not condemn it.

“Religious freedom is a foundational tenet of our great nation, and the governor was stunned by the news reports on the FBI memo,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. “While he is encouraged that the FBI removed the document, he believes there must be full transparency and accountability from FBI leadership as part of the review under way.”

The FBI publicly announced that it was rescinding the memo after FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin published it on UncoverDC.com on Feb. 8. The national FBI office claimed that the memo “does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI” and promised to remove the document from its systems and “conduct a review of the basis for the document,” but it refused to answer further questions about the move.

…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)