Biden Weaponized Law Enforcement Against Catholics | RealClearPolitics
Even the initial story about the FBI targeting Catholics for suspicion and surveillance was bad enough. In December 2023, the House Judiciary Committee published a detailed report about how the FBI specifically identified traditional Catholics as potential domestic terror threats.
The House report revealed the shocking finding that the Richmond, Virginia, office of the FBI suspected traditional Catholics as violent extremists and proposed opportunities for the FBI to infiltrate Catholic churches as a form of threat mitigation.
In sworn testimony before the U.S. Senate, former FBI Director Christopher Wray was challenged by Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri: Now we know that, in fact, FBI agents did approach a priest and a choir director to ask them to inform on parishioners. Despite this serious allegation, Wray denied a wider FBI initiative and blamed a localized mistake in Richmond.
Well & new information reveals that, at best, FBI Director Wray was playing fast and loose with the truth. At worst, the then-sitting chief law enforcement investigator of America committed perjury when he dishonestly stated that the memo was a single product by a single field office. Oh, all while completely maligning the largest denomination of Christian believers in the United States.
But, alas, the sad story of the FBI targeting Catholics does not end in 2023. New information uncovered by Sen. Charles Grassley s committee reveals that the so-called Richmond memo was more like a nationwide all-points-bulletin from FBI brass, informing legions of agents to suspect and investigate faithful parishioners across the land.
Well, this is just grand. I can just see the FBI agent assigned to the one, crowded and located-in-the-barrio traditionalist Catholic parish in SD, packed in amongst the crying children and patient, veiled moms. I hope the rank-and-file FBI agents would see the absurdity of this, but I think the FBI agents we think of have long since felt the vibe and taken early retirement.