Remember how it was found out that the Richmond field office for the FBI was spying on Catholic churches and investigating parishioners as "extremists?"
Because under the Biden admin, believing Catholic teaching is "extreme."
Then when Christopher Wray the FBI Director was asked about it he said it was just one sort of rogue field office and wasn't reflective of the FBI in general. It was a single field office doing a single project. Nothing to worry about.
Shocking to absolutely no one, Christopher Wray was being totally dishonest and covering his own butt.
Yes, once the Judiciary Committee finally got ahold of the memo, they realized that it wasn't just the Richmond Field Office that was investigating traditional Catholic churches. It was part of a scheme that was going on across the country.
This is a direct contradiction to Wray's earlier testimony meant to downplay the depth and breadth of this operation.
From the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board:
On July 25 the FBI finally provided the committee with a less-redacted version of that Richmond document. The report says that its information on Catholics was "primarily derived" from an "FBI Richmond contact"; an "FBI Portland liaison contact" who informed on a subject who "gravitated to" traditionalist catholicism; and an "FBI Undercover Employee" who reported on a subject who attended a Catholic church in California.
It also says the FBI's Los Angeles field office "initiated an investigation" into a subject, and that the Richmond office "[c]oordinated with" FBI Portland to prepare the field report. In other words, this was a widespread bureau effort. Why was this suspicion about religion so widespread at the FBI?
I can answer that last question. Because it's run by godless commies, obviously.
Of course they hate religion!
The Journal raises another really good question:
Also troubling is the FBI's decision to redact the Portland and Los Angeles roles from the original version of the Richmond document it provided Congress in March. In a letter with the less-redacted version, acting assistant FBI director Christopher Dunham said the redactions had been necessary to protect "information specific to ongoing criminal investigations."
What changed from March until July, other than a threat of contempt from the Judiciary Committee? It's hard not to conclude that the bureau was trying to hide the breadth of its Catholics-as-radicals investigation.
What in the memo that we can now see would protect an ongoing investigation? Unless they needed a few months to kill active investigations into Catholic churches that they originally denied were happening.
I'm sure the GOP will write another strongly worded letter when they should be dragging everyone involved in this into Congress and handing out pink slips left and right, as well as working on withholding funds from the FBI while they prepare for plans to defund and abolish the whole organization.
But for now, angry tweets and nasty letters are all we can hope for.
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