Report: FBI’s Anti-Catholic Monitoring Went Well Beyond What Director Wray Once Claimed
From Tampa Free Press
Article By Liam Edgar, Original Publish Date: December 17, 2023
The Biden administration’s war on conservative Christians was more expansive than initially thought or admitted to by the FBI, a new report indicates.
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has released 98 pages of documents obtained through a public records request that show an anti-Catholic advisory issued by the FBI earlier this year was not contained just to the Richmond field office, as FBI Director Christopher Wray had told Congress.
The document was “a single product by a single field office,” Wray testified in August.
But Judicial Watch reported that the newest records show the analysis was assembled with help from FBI agents in Portland and Milwaukee.
It was also reviewed at the highest levels of the FBI. The new records indicate that the FBI’s Office of General Counsel also played a role in its release.
As the Tampa Free Press reported in February, the FBI in Richmond circulated a memo claiming that “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” or RTCs, who are known primarily by a fondness for the Latin mass and criticism of the liberal reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, can demonstrate “adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.”
The memo suggested the FBI could use spies inside Catholic parishes to monitor any rhetoric or actions by the RTCs.
In one of the documents shared Friday by Judicial Watch, the FBI noted, “FBI Richmond assesses the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.”
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