FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is underneath fireplace after retweeting a video of FBI official Stanley Meador, a person nonetheless employed by the bureau regardless of being on the middle of a scandal involving the profiling of traditionalist Catholics as potential home extremists and potential white supremacist recruits.
Stanley Meador is the Particular Agent in Cost (SAC) of the FBI’s Richmond Subject Workplace, who oversaw the creation of a controversial inner FBI memorandum that labeled sure “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as potential home terrorism threats.
The video, initially posted by the FBI’s Richmond Subject Workplace, exhibits Meador addressing the “764” group, a violent on-line community recognized for coercing youngsters into self-harm, suicide, and animal cruelty, typically utilizing cybercriminal ways like doxxing and faux Telegram chats to focus on weak minors, as famous in a 2024 CyberScoop report.
Dan Bongino’s official X account shared this video through retweet.
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You spoke- we listened. Based mostly in your feedback to our final video about gore teams, we knew we would have liked to present you extra details about this menace to your youngsters. Watch this and share it with somebody who must know. This is likely to be onerous to take heed to, nevertheless it’s vital. pic.twitter.com/cKzZ1669RA
— FBI Richmond (@FBIRichmond) April 14, 2025
“That is Stanley Meador. He was liable for the FBI’s Richmond workplace once they permitted an intel product suggesting that Conventional Latin Mass Catholics have been probably recruits for White Supremacy,” former FBI agent turned whistleblower Kyle Seraphin wrote on X.
“Seeing [Bongino] promote him is a slap within the face. Cutesy Time Continues,” he added.
That is Stanley Meador. He was liable for the FBI’s Richmond workplace once they permitted an intel product suggesting that Conventional Latin Mass Catholics have been probably recruits for White Supremacy.
Seeing @FBIDDBongino promote him is a slap within the face.
Cutesy Time Continues https://t.co/UdasqzcTTR pic.twitter.com/gR7ITky7v2
— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) April 14, 2025
Extra from Kyle Seraphin:
I’m not suggesting Kash and Dan don’t know who they’re… I’m reminding yall they’re there. And so they must be eliminated. When they’re, you’ll know why the names matter.
— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) March 29, 2025
In February 2023, the Committee on the Judiciary and the Choose Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Authorities launched its investigation after whistleblower Kyle Seraphin uncovered the Richmond memorandum throughout the FBI’s inner methods.
The leaked memo urged that, to infiltrate Catholic parishes, FBI brokers might use clergy and parish employees as “tripwires” and monitor on-line communities related to the Conventional Latin Mass.
It relied on sources just like the Southern Poverty Legislation Middle, Salon, and The Atlantic, and included enter from different FBI discipline workplaces, together with Portland and Los Angeles.
The Home Judiciary Committee’s December 2023 report revealed that the FBI had interviewed a priest and a choir director in Richmond as a part of the memo’s growth.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has referred to as the memo “appalling” and said that it was retracted promptly upon discovery.
Based on the Washington Examiner, Meador testified earlier than Congress in August 2023 for a number of hours in a behind-closed-doors interview, acknowledging his function in retracting the memo and assembly with Catholic leaders to handle the fallout.
Nevertheless, throughout a Senate Judiciary Committee listening to in December 2023, Senator Josh Hawley criticized the FBI for not terminating any personnel concerned.
According to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Choose Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Authorities:
From witness testimony and FBI inner paperwork, the Committee and Choose Subcommittee have discovered that there have been errors at each step of the drafting, evaluation, approval, and elimination means of the memorandum. For instance:
- The paperwork acquired pursuant to the Committee’s subpoena present there was no legit foundation for the memorandum to insert federal legislation enforcement into Catholic homes of worship.
- The premise for the Richmond memorandum relied on a single investigation within the Richmond Subject Workplace’s space of duty through which the topic “self-described” as a “radical-traditionalist Catholic” (RTC). Nevertheless, FBI workers couldn’t outline the that means of an RTC when making ready, modifying, or reviewing the memorandum. Even so, this single investigation grew to become the premise for an FBI-wide memorandum warning concerning the risks of “radical” Catholics.
- Whistleblower disclosures reveal that the FBI interviewed a priest and choir director affiliated with a Catholic church in Richmond, Virginia whereas making ready the memorandum to tell on the parishioner underneath investigation.
- Along with the investigation in Virginia, FBI Richmond relied on reporting from different discipline workplaces throughout the nation, together with FBI Los Angeles, FBI Milwaukee, and FBI Portland in making its evaluation.
- The 2 FBI workers who co-authored the memorandum later informed FBI inner investigators that they knew the sources cited within the memorandum had a political bias—sources together with the Southern Poverty Legislation Middle, Salon, and The Atlantic.
- The paperwork acquired pursuant to the Committee’s subpoena present that the FBI singled out People who’re pro-life, pro-family, and help the organic foundation for intercourse and gender distinction as potential home terrorists. The memorandum acknowledged “the run-up to the subsequent normal election cycle” as a key time-frame and cited the Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group choice that overturned Roe v. Wade as a flash level.
- With out appreciable criticism within the wake of the disclosure of the memorandum, the doc would have remained in an FBI-wide system. On the time of the memorandum’s disclosure, FBI officers have been discussing turning the memorandum into an exterior, public-facing doc highlighting the threats of “radical” Catholics. Most regarding, FBI Richmond nonetheless wishes to convey this info to different discipline workplaces about “radical-traditionalist Catholics.”
- FBI Richmond’s senior management noticed the memorandum as a possibility to insert federal legislation enforcement into locations of worship and help outreach efforts to the Diocese of Richmond and different Catholic parishes.
- Following public criticism concerning the memorandum, FBI Richmond’s Particular Agent in Cost Stanley Meador met with members of the clergy, together with the Most Reverend Barry Knestout, Bishop of the Diocese of Richmond, and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church to fix the FBI’s relationship with the Catholic group.
- Whistleblower disclosures to the Committee additional reveal that the memorandum was accessible to different discipline workplaces throughout the nation. Nevertheless, the FBI nonetheless has no concept what number of FBI workers accessed the memorandum earlier than its elimination and can’t affirm whether or not any outreach occurred to Catholic parishes because of the memorandum.
This revelation comes after FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly appointed Steven Jensen to guide the coveted FBI Washington Subject Workplace.
Based on the New York Occasions, Jensen “performed a key function in responding to the assault on the Capitol” on January sixth.
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