{"id":57767,"date":"2023-03-01T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/cruz-roy-demand-answers-from-garland-on-fbi-allegedly-secretly-recording-progressive-anti-abortion-group-57767"},"modified":"2023-03-01T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:50:45","slug":"cruz-roy-demand-answers-from-garland-on-fbi-allegedly-secretly-recording-progressive-anti-abortion-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/cruz-roy-demand-answers-from-garland-on-fbi-allegedly-secretly-recording-progressive-anti-abortion-group-57767","title":{"rendered":"Cruz, Roy demand answers from Garland on FBI allegedly secretly recording progressive anti-abortion group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>A pair of Texas Republican lawmakers demanded answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland on allegations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) secretly recorded a meeting of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/progressive-pro-life-group-abortion-industrial-complex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive anti-abortion group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Republicans<\/a> Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Chip Roy sent Garland a letter on Wednesday amid the secretary&#8217;s hearing regarding the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising&#8217;s (PAAU) allegations of an undercover FBI agent secretly recorded one of their meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Eric Mike Santos&#8217; attended and taped a pro-life meeting at the Watergate hotel in Washington D.C. on January 19, 2023, according to the group,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6321490726112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WATCH LIVE: SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING ON THE \u2018OVERSIGHT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The recording was then used in federal court as evidence that PAAU Director of Activism, Lauren Handy, violated her terms of release,&#8221; the Republicans continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allegations that the FBI is spying on pro-life gatherings in tandem with the rise in high-profile FBI investigations into pro-life Americans raise well-founded concerns for millions of Americans,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;The American people deserve the truth \u2013 are their tax dollars and federal law enforcement agencies being used to spy on pro-life Americans?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers then peppered Garland with questions regarding the allegations, including if the FBI sent &#8220;an undercover informant&#8221; to the pro-life meeting, what reasons they FBI and Department of Justice &#8220;consider it necessary&#8221; for the alleged informant&#8217;s attendance, and if the FBI &#8220;regularly&#8221; sends undercover informants &#8220;to pro-life meetings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the lawmakers asked Garland to explain &#8220;the FBI&#8217;s [rationale] for using bureau resources to spy on pro-life meetings&#8221; and if the FBI views &#8220;pro-life Americans as domestic terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the PAAU alleged the FBI sent an undercover informant to record their group meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prosecutors attempted to claim this recording of Handy discussing plans for nonviolent direct actions in and around abortion businesses was a violation of her terms of release in her ongoing federal case which stipulate she is prohibited from entering abortion centers,&#8221; the group&#8217;s Twitter account wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Handy made headlines last year when she along with 10 others including PAAU Executive Board member Herb Geraghty and pro-life icon Joan Andrews Bell were charged under the FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances),&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PAAUNOW\/status\/1628431757887385602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">group continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each of the defendants are facing 11 years in federal prison for allegedly blocking access to a Washington D.C. all-term abortion business run by Cesare Santangelo, also known as &#8216;The Butcher of D.C.&#8217; in the fall of 2020,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Chris Wray was asked about the topic during a Fox News interview on Tuesday but he declined to answer. &#8220;Well, as I&#8217;m sure you can appreciate, Bret, I can&#8217;t really appropriately talk about when, where and how we use confidential informants,&#8221; Wray told Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/cruz-roy-demand-answers-garland-fbi-allegedly-secretly-recording-progressive-anti-abortion-group\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/cruz-roy-demand-answers-garland-fbi-allegedly-secretly-recording-progressive-anti-abortion-group <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: A pair of Texas Republican lawmakers demanded answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland on allegations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) secretly recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-57767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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