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Christopher Wray Lied: The FBI Was Targeting American Catholics
American Spectator ^ | June 8, 2025 | S.A. McCarthy

Posted on 06/11/2025 2:16:02 PM PDT by ebb tide

Christopher Wray Lied: The FBI Was Targeting American Catholics

A US Senate investigation reveals that anti-Catholic animus in the FBI runs deep, and several unsettling questions remain.

Over two years ago, the nation’s top law enforcement agency landed in hot water when a memo leaked detailing plans to infiltrate and illegally spy on certain Catholic parishes and classifying American Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass as “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” and “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists.” The memo, drafted and approved by the FBI’s Richmond field office, caused outrage and initiated a series of congressional hearings, during which then-FBI director Christopher Wray attested, under oath, that the Richmond field office had acted alone in drafting the memo, which was never circulated or meant to be circulated to the FBI more broadly. Wray lied.

In at least one instance, an FBI agent actually went undercover and infiltrated a Catholic parish, and other agents interrogated sacristans and organists.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote that, contrary to Wray’s testimony, the anti-Catholic memo “had been widely distributed to FBI field offices across the country.” In fact, the memo reportedly reached at least 1,000 FBI employees in multiple field offices across the country.

Grassley noted that the Richmond memo served as the basis for a much broader-reaching second intelligence product being drafted when the initial memo was leaked. “Director Wray’s testimony was inaccurate not only because it failed to reveal the scope of the memo’s production and dissemination, but also because it failed to reveal the existence of a second, draft product on the same topic intended for external distribution to the whole FBI,” the senator wrote. He said that the second draft “was clearly a separate product, since it involved a different planned distribution to the whole Bureau, and a different chain of review, through the Counterterrorism Division.”

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TOPICS: Catholic; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: biden; fbi; liars; wray
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The FBI began hurriedly deleting documents related to the anti-Catholic memo and its production once the memo itself was leaked. In fact, according to Grassley, then-FBI deputy director Paul Abbate ordered the memo and related documents to be deleted the very day that the memo became public.


1 posted on 06/11/2025 2:16:02 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; Mrs. Don-o; ...

Ping


2 posted on 06/11/2025 2:16:38 PM PDT by ebb tide (The Synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
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To: ebb tide

Paging Pam Bondi....


3 posted on 06/11/2025 2:17:27 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ebb tide

Sounds like a violation of the Federal Records Act.


4 posted on 06/11/2025 2:18:33 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ebb tide

Maybe it’s because the Roman Empire religion violates Romans 11:6.


5 posted on 06/11/2025 2:23:29 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: ebb tide

20 years at Club Fed, and a ruinous $5 million fine.


6 posted on 06/11/2025 2:25:15 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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To: MtnClimber

Who?


7 posted on 06/11/2025 2:26:11 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: ebb tide

So who’s getting promoted?


8 posted on 06/11/2025 2:26:13 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: ebb tide

Charge him; bankrupt him.


9 posted on 06/11/2025 2:26:48 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: ebb tide

There is no deleting anything. If they claim so, they are in on the crimes.


10 posted on 06/11/2025 2:26:54 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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To: ebb tide

Either biden told the fbi to do it, or his staff did it for him. Either way, biden should have been impeached and publicly shamed.


11 posted on 06/11/2025 2:34:02 PM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: MtnClimber

“Paging Pam Bondi....”

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Try reaching her at Fox.


12 posted on 06/11/2025 2:41:55 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: ebb tide

“Christopher Wray Lied”. I have little doubt he did, but it always seemed like his ‘hair was perfect’.


13 posted on 06/11/2025 2:42:03 PM PDT by kawhill ( Just trying to make conscious decisions, unconsciously)
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To: Old Yeller

Maybe you’re just another hateful anti-Catholic, like Wray.


14 posted on 06/11/2025 2:57:07 PM PDT by ebb tide (The Synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
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To: Old Yeller

You actually want the Federal government to persecute people who don’t agree with your soteriology? The Protestant Inquisition?


15 posted on 06/11/2025 3:18:18 PM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: ebb tide

So what? Nobody will ever be held accountable.


16 posted on 06/11/2025 3:22:21 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Old Yeller

You can’t possibly believe that’s the reason. The reason is, Catholicism is God’s one and only true religion. We wouldn’t sic the government on you for believing otherwise, by the way.


17 posted on 06/11/2025 3:26:20 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

God and the saints will hold all accountable. Satan has a special place in Hell for such as Wray.


18 posted on 06/11/2025 3:38:39 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: Old Yeller
"Maybe it’s because the Roman Empire religion violates Romans 11:6."

Go crawl back under your ignorant and bigoted anti-Catholic rock and tend to your own miserable soul.


19 posted on 06/11/2025 3:40:49 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Hear, hear!


20 posted on 06/11/2025 3:47:05 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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