Biden FBI Obscured Extent of Agency Investigation of Catholics

Liberty Nation ^ | Jun 8, 2025 | John Klar

[E. Pluribus Unum]

First Amendment violations face renewed scrutiny.

First Amendment violations face renewed scrutiny.

The cornerstone of American liberties is the First Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids any state or government agency from prohibiting the free exercise of religion or abridging free speech. Continuing revelations about FBI scrutiny of conservative Catholics demonstrate that the Joe Biden administration’s FBI threatened both and then deceptively concealed from Congress the full extent of its activities.

New FBI Revelations

A letter to FBI Director Kash Patel from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) alleges that the FBI obscured its dubious investigation of traditional Catholics by concealing or deleting documents and misrepresenting how widely its controversial 2023 “Domain Perspective” memo was disseminated. The Daily Caller reported:

“Grassley’s newly-released documents show that FBI field offices across the U.S. received a memo suggesting traditionalist Catholics may be budding extremists and that the memo was not created by ‘a single field office,’ as the FBI suggested to Congress in 2023 …

“The original Richmond [Virginia] memo said ‘Radical Traditionalist’ Catholics were increasingly moving toward ‘racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism.’ Rejecting the Second Vatican Council and preferring the traditional Latin Mass could be signs of violent extremism and white supremacy among Catholics, the document claimed.”

The memo relied on highly partisan sources, including Salon and the Southern Poverty Law Center, for its outlandish slanders. One citation in a Salon article — titled “White nationalists get religion: On the far-right fringe, Catholics and racists forge a movement” — intoned that adherents were guilty of “a rejection of modernity and embrace of patriarchal, anti-LGBTQ values.”

A second Salon piece — emblazoned “‘Traditional’ Catholics and white nationalist ‘groypers’ [alt-right activists] forge a new far-right youth movement” — recounted supposed offenses such as “protest[ing] of a church vaccine drive in Southern California [that] forced the drive to...

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[fuente]

Who’s being prosecuted? Nobody.

[HYPOCRACY]

The guy behind it was the first guy Kash promoted.

[McCarthysGhost]

Sounds like a page right out of Red China’s religious crackdowns. I wonder who was really behind the Autopen. The Autopen sold a million barrels of oil out of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.

[arthurus]

Sometimes “investigations are more in the nature of “harassment” with the hope that something can be found to taint a certain person or group or somethin can be fabricated for use when the “investigation” is outed.

[GailA]

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