DOJ Releases Report on Bidens Weaponization of

On Friday, the Department of Justice’s Weaponization Working Group launched its report on how the FBI Field Office in Richmond, VA focused Orthodox Catholics, and it is as unhealthy as one would possibly count on. 

The 231-page report was commissioned after a whistleblower uncovered the notorious “2023 Catholic Weaponization memo,” which was unofficially disseminated throughout the workplace, but not launched bureau-wide. As RedState reported, the analysts who gathered the intelligence, which depended closely on info garnered through the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), have been dismissed in June. 

The full working group report offers a detailed timeline and the paperwork that corroborate just how a lot time, sources, and manpower this workplace devoted to what was primarily a witch hunt on Catholics who selected to observe their religion through observance of the Latin Mass, who believed that abortion is homicide, and who used their First Amendment proper to criticize the federal government’s actions.   

As Attorney General Todd Blanche acknowledged in a press release:

This Department of Justice won’t tolerate a weaponized forms that chills First Amendment exercise. The people who developed the Richmond Domain Perspective are no longer with the Department, and our Working Group’s efforts to examine weaponization under the earlier Administration will continue.

🚨Weaponization Working Group Releases Report on 2023 FBI Richmond Field Office Memo That Targeted Non-Mainstream Catholics

This report sheds additional gentle on the focusing on and investigation of non-mainstream Catholics under the earlier administration.

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From the report:

After reviewing a substantial quantity of inside emails, assessments, and investigative data, the Working Group concludes that the Biden FBI engaged in improper and unjustified law enforcement and intelligence exercise, including:

• Agents made in depth inquiries into two clergymen and monitored their journey and communications. The FBI in the end discovered no hyperlink to legal exercise or violent extremism.
• The FBI relied on biased and unverified supplies, including Southern Poverty Law Center publications and international intelligence supplies, without assessing their credibility. Internal reviews later concluded that the product improperly conflated non secular doctrine with violent extremism and ignored First Amendment considerations.

The FBI’s management took minimal corrective motion after the Richmond Domain Perspective. Despite headquarters acknowledging the Perspective’s flaws, workers concerned obtained constructive efficiency reviews, and Richmond management overtly defended their work. Staff continued refining the Perspective even after it was eliminated from FBI systems.

The FBI’s actions in 2023 have been unsuitable. The Trump Administration, Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel are dedicated to addressing these abuses and stopping their recurrence.

The focusing on started with the investigation of a explicit priest, then developed additional when the Richmond analysts made tenuous connections between the priest and a international group called the “SSPX Resistance.”

Around early January 2023, an Intelligence Analyst in the Richmond workplace uncovered and forwarded materials about the SSPX Resistance that a international law enforcement company had developed. That materials described SSPX Resistance as “an Orthodox Catholic group which blends traditional Catholicism with National Socialist ideals. Intelligence purportedly indicated “the group has a wide European-American network and is attempting to radicalize individuals through the Catholic religion towards Neo-Nazi extremism.”

This launched a deep dive into the priest’s life and the church he oversaw, as well as an investigation into a second priest. This dig was the full FBI Monty, including where the priests traveled and the people with whom they interacted. Much of the focus of the targeting surrounded the beliefs of the church rather than anything actionable, and using SPLC research and Leftist media to make its point.

The Memo defined “radical-traditionalist Catholics”—and thus the ideology that attracted potential extremists—by their doctrinal views (“RTCs are typically characterized by the rejection of” Vatican II and post-Vatican II popes) and their political opinions (“adherence to anti-Semitic,anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology”).120 It tried to distinguish “traditionalist Catholics” on the premise that they lack “the more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric.”121 The Memo didn’t present concrete examples of the variations between “radical-traditionalist Catholics” and traditionalist Catholics, indicating that the key metric was merely how “traditionalist” a explicit Catholic group was. For occasion, in discussing SSPX, SSPX Resistance, and SSPX-MC, the Memo targeted solely on their doctrinal views vis-à-vis what the FBI seen as the mainstream Catholic church and never tried to categorize those teams as “radical-traditionalist Catholics,” “traditionalist Catholics,” or one thing else. 

The Memo also claimed the FBI may “mitigate the RMVE threat through outreach to traditionalist Catholic parishes,” even though the Memo’s thesis was that RMVEs have been attracted to a meaningfully distinct “radical-traditionalist” Catholic viewpoint. And while the Memo listed 9 teams as “[SPLC]-Defined RTC hostility Groups in the United States,” it didn’t clarify what made those teams “hate groups” apart from their Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”) itemizing or how itemizing these teams was constant with FBI observe.

The Richmond Catholic Memo instructed that sure teams taking a place on political points with non secular relevance may entice violent extremists. For instance, citing Salon articles, it pointed to “increasing collaboration” between a “far-right Catholic media outlet” and the political “‘groyper’ movement,” and, citing an Atlantic article, referenced “increase[d] hostility toward abortion-rights advocates on social media sites in the run-up to and aftermath of” the overruling of Roe v. Wade.

What is chilling is that the analysts who participated in this insanity obtained favorable efficiency reviews, while those who questioned its veracity didn’t. 

Let that sink in.

FBI Director Kash Patel assured that this is a new FBI and this looking out for a crime to connect to a explicit particular person or group would no longer be tolerated.

Weaponization will never be tolerated at this FBI. Even while those who developed the unacceptable Richmond Catholic memo under the earlier administration have been held accountable, releasing info to the public about what occurred under the prior regime is an important half of the method. I need to thank the Weaponization Working Group for their partnership as properly as Attorney General Todd Blanche for his management addressing these abuses and making sure they never occur again. 

Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. once again spoke to the unique Richmond memo, which, had it been disseminated throughout all workplaces, may have triggered large harm.

The weaponization of our Government undermines our Democracy and reduces the People’s trust in our Nation’s establishments that are designed to serve and shield them. The Richmond Memo was a clear abuse of energy, focusing on conservative and non secular beliefs disfavored by brokers of Government who lacked mandatory oversight. No more. Under Attorney General Blanche’s management this Department may have zero tolerance for weaponization.

The Trump Department of Justice continues to kick butt and take names. While this report could not essentially end result in arrests or perp walks, it’s of great significance that the evidence of the Biden Administration’s flagrant weaponization of the American people be uncovered and addressed so that it never has a probability to happen again.

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