Conventional Catholics have been deemed home terrorists beneath the Biden Administration. Newly launched Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data reveal the true extent of the surveillance measures.
In 2023, a whistleblower notified the general public that the federal government was spying on Catholic Church buildings and patrons who held pro-life views. The whistleblower supplied an inside doc now often known as the Richmond memo, formally titled “Curiosity of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Nearly Actually Presents New Mitigation Alternatives.” The interior memo that was distributed to 1,000 FBI brokers throughout the nation deemed “radical-traditionalist Catholics” (RTCs) racially or ethnically motivated extremists.
Then-Legal professional Common Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray tried to retract the memo. Wray claimed that the slander was restricted to 1 memo. As Wray stated beneath oath: The one involvement of the 2 different area workplaces was the Richmond authors of the product included two sentences or one thing thereabouts referencing every of those different workplaces’ instances, they usually despatched these sentences in regards to the different workplaces’ instances to them, not the entire product, and requested them, ‘hey, did we describe your case proper?’ That’s all the opposite workplaces had. So it was a single area workplace’s product, and I stand by that. The Division of Justice’s Inspector Common reviewed the letter when it was first leaked and decided that there was no spiritual bias or malicious intent.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, continued to look into the matter. On June 2, 2025, he despatched a seven-page letter to FBI Director Kash Patel to say that his letters to former FBI Director Wray went unanswered and new findings warranted reopening the investigation. Moreover, Grassley discovered that intelligence businesses “produced no less than 13 further paperwork and 5 attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on data from the unconventional far-left Southern Poverty Regulation Middle.” The extent of spying and inside dialogue concerning Catholics as extremists was far deeper than “two sentences” in a single memo. The second of 13 memos was launched to all the FBI division, urging them to proceed monitoring Catholics.
The FBI tracked will increase and reduces in mass attendance at traditionalist Catholic church buildings. They have been instructed to observe the social media accounts of Catholics as a type of “menace mitigation.” The parishioner sitting beside you within the pew might have been a Biden FBI agent in disguise. This was an agency-wide effort that the previous administration tried to cover. The FBI interviewed parishioners and clergy members to instill suspicion and concern in the neighborhood.
The First Modification of the US Structure grants Individuals the fitting to train their spiritual beliefs. It’s onerous to imagine that the Division of Justice’s Inspector Common failed to seek out proof of malicious intent when a selected spiritual group was clearly discriminated towards and focused for his or her religion. Wray lied beneath oath and Biden turned on his personal fake religion to focus on anybody who might doubtlessly stand in the way in which of his pro-abortion stance.