Catholic Vote: ‘Too Busy Monitoring Catholics’: Reactions to FBI Director’s Comments about Protests Pour In
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By Catholic Vote, CV News Feed on April 24, 2024
CV NEWS FEED // A chorus of observers accused Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher A. Wray of hypocrisy this week, after he defended the Bureau’s decision to “not monitor” the several pro-Palestine protests on college campuses.
During an NBC News interview Tuesday night, host Lester Holt asked Wray if the FBI is “actively monitoring these protests.”
“We don’t monitor protests,” the FBI director answered. “But we do share intelligence about specific threats of violence.”
Shortly after Wray’s comments were aired, a flurry of reactions from social media poured in.
Many users took to X (formerly Twitter) in particular to accuse the FBI of devoting its resources to target Catholics, other Christians, and opponents of the Biden administration, while giving a pass to legitimate threats from the pro-Hamas protestors and other groups friendly to the political left. …
