FBI whistleblowers say pro-life groups, Catholics and others were ‘target of the government‘

“The FBI targeted pro-life groups, Catholics, and parents attending school board meetings with investigations in an effort to “inflate” the sense that they were a domestic terrorism threat, according to new whistleblower reports.

“House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, detailed the reports in a Thursday morning news conference just minutes before three FBI whistleblowers were scheduled to testify before the committee. Jordan described allegations from the whistleblowers that the FBI’s Washington, D.C., office pressured the rest of the organization toward a political agenda.

“If you’re a parent attending you’re a parent attending a school board meeting; if you’re a pro-lifer praying at a clinic, or you’re a Catholic simply going to Mass, you are a target of the government, a target of the FBI,” Jordan said, adding that officials attempted to “inflate” their investigations to treat them as domestic and violent extremism cases.

“Jordan says his committee spoke with over two dozen FBI whistleblowers in compiling its report. Three of those whistleblowers are scheduled to testify publicly before the committee Thursday morning….More