AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Spanberger picks former FBI official tied to retracted anti-Catholic memo to lead Virginia prison reform council
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has tapped Stanley Meador, the former head of the FBI's Richmond field office whose shop produced a since-retracted memo calling for surveillance of Catholic churches, to co-chair a new state council on prison reform. The appointment, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, puts Meador back in a high-profile government role […] The post Spanberger picks former FBI official tied to retracted anti-Catholic memo to lead Virginia prison reform council appeared first on American Almanac .
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has tapped Stanley Meador, the former head of the FBI's Richmond field office whose shop produced a since-retracted memo calling for surveillance of Catholic churches, to co-chair a new state council on prison reform. The appointment, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon , puts Meador back in a high-profile government role months after the FBI ousted him over the same controversy that made his name a byword for federal overreach against people of faith. Spanberger announced the Community Partnership Council on Corrections on June 23, naming Meador, her secretary of public safety and homeland security, and Virginia Department of Corrections director Joseph Walters as co-chairs. The governor said…Open