Posted on 07/15/2023 10:04:38 AM PDT by Twotone
The FBI is seeking to block the release of its records pertaining to a since-retracted memo that said that traditional Catholic communities presented an opportunity for surveillance.
The political advocacy organization CatholicVote sued the FBI in April, seeking to force the agency to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request that sought records pertaining to the FBI's drafting and dissemination of a memo at the agency's Richmond, Virginia field office that said "radical traditional Catholic" communities are possible sources of domestic extremism and cited the Southern Poverty Law Center. The FBI retracted the memo after it was leaked online.
Last week, in a court filing, the FBI said that it should not be compelled to release records relating to the memo, saying that CatholicVote is "not entitled" to the records it sought, citing unnamed FOIA exemptions.
"Plaintiffs are not entitled to compel the production of records, or portions thereof, properly protected from disclosure by one or more FOIA exemptions or exclusions," the FBI said in its filing.
Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, addressed the memo during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, telling committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) that the agency was conducting an internal investigation of the drafting of the document.
The FBI and the Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment.
Brian Burch, the president of CatholicVote, told the Washington Examiner in a statement that the judge hearing the case has scheduled a "briefing conference" later this month to discuss the FOIA request.
"Despite the FBI's efforts to block access to these documents, we are preparing to press the court to compel them to turn them over as quickly as possible," Burch said. "We are confident that the law supports our request, and are committed to defending the right of citizens to hold their government accountable in the face of what the Attorney General described as an 'appalling' abuse of power."
But the crooked FBI under Wray is entitled to spy on churches? BU!!SH!T!
PURE EVIL!
OK, excommunicate any federal employee. Refuse communion to any known federal employee unless they repent and openly support the church.. Preach the sermon homily against them.
Back in the old church, they wouldn’t of taken this communist BS laying down.
They keep poking and poking. Looking for a response.
We all wonder how the people allowed Nazis and Communists to take over and rule...
That ruling decision belongs to a federal judge not some FBI administrator.
The Nazis took over via constitutional means.
Tear it down!
The point is the people allowed it even knowing the evil...just as we are.
Few people differentiate between that which is legal and that which is just, or unjust and evil.
I’m not aware of any society that conducted itself differently.
That’s a pretty dark view. I have to disagree with you. Most nations historically corrected themselves or in certain cases they were corrected by other nations...
Our Framers insisted that the purpose of government is to secure our unalienable, Natural Rights. That is the essence of justice. They also wrote that free government demands the consent of the governed. That is the legal.
It is the comingling or equating of the just with the legal that allows minds with totalitarian leanings to sink nations into misery. It ensconces majority rule, the stronger over the weaker with the patina of legitimacy. It is the rejection of this distinction between the legal and the just that dignifies all forms of tyranny.
Laughable.
That ruling decision belongs to a federal judge not some FBI administrator.
Exactly!!
The founding fathers had a deep understanding of God’s laws and those inalienable rights granted us by Him. Those rights do not need men’s laws to exist. They are written on our douls...or, in our essence. Mankind has from near the beginning strove to overcome injustice and immorality with varying success. There is evil which is an active force that attacks God’s will and wants to deprive mankind from God. This has been, is, and will be the conflict. Nations come and go, we are nearing the end of ours. But, the battle between good and evil shall continue. This next one I fear will be the worst in history.
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