WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Amid an investigation into a controversial and retracted FBI memo that suggested some “radical traditionalist” Catholics pose threats of racial or ethnically motivated violence, a GOP senator alleged the FBI distributed the memo that “used anti-Catholic terminology” more widely than previously known.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote in a June 2 letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the memo was “widely distributed” within the bureau before it was retracted, including in consultations by the authors with agents in the Louisville, Kentucky, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee field offices.

“I’m determined to get to the bottom of the Richmond memo, and of the FBI’s contempt for oversight in the last administration,” Grassley wrote. “I l

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