Posted on 08/09/2023 5:18:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Multiple FBI field offices were involved in the drafting of a memo targeting Catholics as potential domestic terrorists, a newly unredacted document obtained by House Republicans reveals. The discovery contradicts testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray, who previously claimed under oath only one field office was involved.
“This new information suggests that the FBI’s use of its law enforcement capabilities to intrude on American’s First Amendment rights is more widespread than initially suspected,” House Republicans wrote in a letter sent to Wray on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, a leaked FBI memo dated Jan. 23 revealed the agency’s Richmond, Virginia, field office was tasked with investigating the alleged threat of “white supremacy” among Catholics who attend Latin Mass. As The Federalist’s Evita Duffy-Alfonso previously reported, the memo said the Bureau “may potentially mitigate” the supposed “threat” of “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” with “’tripwire and source development,’ which means further infiltration into Catholic communities using various kinds of informants.”
During his July 12 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Wray claimed the January memo was “a single product by a single field office.” According to a newly unredacted version of the document obtained by House Republicans, however, that statement doesn’t appear to be true.
After months of the FBI stonewalling Republicans’ oversight efforts, the new version of the memo given to the Judiciary Committee on July 25 purportedly shows that the agency’s Portland and Los Angeles field offices “were involved in or contributed to the creation of FBI’s assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.”
“The document cited reporting from an ‘FBI Portland liaison contact with indirect access’ who informed on a ‘deceased [Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist (RMVE)] subject’ who had ‘sought out a mainline Roman Catholic community’ and then ‘gravitated to [Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX)],'” the memo reads. “In addition, the document noted how an FBI undercover employee with ‘direct access’ reported on a subject who ‘attended the SSPX-affiliated [redacted] Church in [redacted] California, for over a year prior to his relocation.'”
The document furthermore stated that “FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office initiated an investigation on the ‘RMVE subject’ and that the FBI Richmond office “‘[c]oordinated with’ FBI Portland in preparing the assessment.”
In their Wednesday letter to Wray, House Republicans questioned why the FBI repeatedly redacted such information in previous versions of the memo provided to the Judiciary Committee and furthermore invited Wray to “amend” his testimony “to fully explain the nature and scope of the FBI’s assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.” The Judiciary Committee is additionally requesting the FBI turn over all communications between the agency’s Richmond, Portland, and Los Angeles bureaus related to the January memo by Aug. 23.
What does this say about regular Catholics who seem to love Joe Biden? Very sad
These people will continue to lie with impunity as long as we continue to allow it.
So when will McCarthy hold Wray in Contempt?
As the Chinese would say: Wray wrie ...
Lies are truth, war is peace, terror is safety,
I wouldn’t take Wray very seriously.
“You will know them by their fruits”. They target churches and people of good faith because they’ve taken the side of evil. They’re corrupt and power hungry like communists and tyrannical police forces down through history. When dictators take over, these are the people who create small mountains of bodies and stack their skulls neatly for display.
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So, are they going to make a referral to the Department of Justice?
And the media says: “So he misspoke. Jeez, let’s not make a federal case out of this ...”
FBI Crucifies Catholics
Bureau’s Anti-Catholic Activities Far More Expansive Than Wray Claimed
View Source | August 9, 2023 4:44 pm
The House Judiciary Committee unveiled newly subpoeaned evidence Wednesday that multiple FBI offices were involved with a memo targeting traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists, directly challenging the testimony of Director Christopher Wray in the latest dust-up between Congress and the nation’s premier law enforcement agency.
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The House Judiciary Committee unveiled newly subpoeaned evidence Wednesday that multiple FBI offices were involved with a memo targeting traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists, directly challenging the testimony of Director Christopher Wray in the latest dust-up between Congress and the nation’s premier law enforcement agency.
Wray had testified that the memo was isolated to the work of the FBI office in Richmond and he repudiated the behavior, but Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said new evidence his investigators received suggested other office were involved, including Los Angeles and Portland.
“Remember the FBI Richmond Field Office memo targeting Catholics as terrorists?” Jordan asked on the X- platform formally known as Twitter. “Director Wray testified that it was only ‘a single field office’ doing so. Well, a newly subpoenaed document shows otherwise. It looks like FBI Portland & FBI Los Angeles were also involved.”
Jordan (R-Ohio) and Subcommittee Chairman Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent a letter to Wray, requesting communications between the FBI Richmond Field Office and other offices it was in contact with regarding the memo, including the Portland and Los Angeles offices.
“In fact, the new document—a lesser-redacted version of the anti-Catholic memo—explicitly shows that both FBI Portland and FBI Los Angeles field offices were involved in or contributed to the creation of the FBI’s assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists,” the letter stated.
“We look forward to receiving a briefing on the FBI’s internal review of this matter and to interviewing the Special Agent in Charge of the Richmond Field Office,” the letter later continues. “However, we again reiterate our outstanding requests, including our request to conduct a transcribed interview with the Chief Division Counsel who approved the Richmond document.”
You can read the letter here:
File
Judiciary Committee Letter.pdf
Earlier this year, the Richmond Field Office put out a now-retracted January memo that characterized Catholics who attend traditional Latin Mass as potential violent extremists.
Jordan and Johnson requested Wray deliver the requested evidence no later than August 23, 2023.
“Director Wray’s testimony on this matter has been accurate and consistent. While the document referred to information from other field office investigations of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist (RMVE) subjects, that does not change the fact the product was produced by a single office,” the FBI told Just the News in a statement. “The FBI investigates violence, threats of violence, and violations of federal law. We do not conduct investigations based solely on religious affiliations or practices, or any other First Amendment protected activity.”
“To be clear: the document was a domain perspective which is an intelligence product designed to address potential threats in a particular area—in this case, the Richmond Field Office’s area of responsibility,” the statement continued. “Because the product failed to meet FBI standards, it was quickly removed from all FBI systems and a review was launched to determine how it was produced in the first place.”
“In fact, the new document—a lesser-redacted version of the anti-Catholic memo—explicitly shows that both FBI Portland and FBI Los Angeles field offices were involved in or contributed to the creation of the FBI’s assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists,” the letter stated.
“We look forward to receiving a briefing on the FBI’s internal review of this matter and to interviewing the Special Agent in Charge of the Richmond Field Office,” the letter later continues. “However, we again reiterate our outstanding requests, including our request to conduct a transcribed interview with the Chief Division Counsel who approved the Richmond document.”
You can read the letter here:
File
Judiciary Committee Letter.pdf
Earlier this year, the Richmond Field Office put out a now-retracted January memo that characterized Catholics who attend traditional Latin Mass as potential violent extremists.
Jordan and Johnson requested Wray deliver the requested evidence no later than August 23, 2023.
“Director Wray’s testimony on this matter has been accurate and consistent. While the document referred to information from other field office investigations of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist (RMVE) subjects, that does not change the fact the product was produced by a single office,” the FBI told Just the News in a statement. “The FBI investigates violence, threats of violence, and violations of federal law. We do not conduct investigations based solely on religious affiliations or practices, or any other First Amendment protected activity.”
“To be clear: the document was a domain perspective which is an intelligence product designed to address potential threats in a particular area—in this case, the Richmond Field Office’s area of responsibility,” the statement continued. “Because the product failed to meet FBI standards, it was quickly removed from all FBI systems and a review was launched to determine how it was produced in the first place.”
When will somebody do something, anything to these corrupt f#cks!!!!!
Does this news surprise anyone? Thought not!
Defund and disband the FBI. It’s purpose is over.
Maybe the republicans should send a strongly worded letter about their disappointment .
I still say Biden ordered this either to impress or as a favor for Bergoglio.
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"Suggests"??? Yeah, the "opposition party" isn't going to do anything. But it's a sternly-worded memo, at least.
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