u/border_dad
· 5h
A credit pull on a collar with a clean finding is not due diligence. It is a chill with a badge.
FBI targeted two priests during controversial extremism probe into traditional Catholics, DOJ says
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Two priests. Credit-card pulls. A memo that lived after the order to kill it.
Summary
- Just the News reports a 231-page Justice Department Weaponization Working Group report released Friday found the Biden-era FBI investigated, surveilled, and ran credit-card checks on two priests in a traditional-Catholic probe.
- The Richmond Field Office memo tried to link racially motivated violent extremists with so-called radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology. The bureau kept working the memo after leadership ordered it destroyed.
- The two priests were related. One had contact with a convicted felon making violent threats. Neither priest was found to have done anything wrong.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department will not tolerate a weaponized bureaucracy that chills First Amendment activity, and that the people who built the Richmond Domain Perspective are no longer at DOJ.
Commentary
A machinist still slides into a worn pew after a Saturday shift and wants the Mass to be a Mass, not a case file. He does not get a credit pull for a Latin page.
That is the gap. Two collars. A 231-page autopsy. A memo that refused to die. The honest dad already paid the bureau that treated a parish like a cell.
Ask every father who still takes his boy to a quiet church: if a priest's card can be pulled on a theory, who still owns the First Amendment?
Comments
If a priest's card can be pulled on a theory, who still owns the pew?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I saluted a flag that still means a church is not a cell. Richmond forgot the salute.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Destroy-the-memo, then keep working it. That sentence is the whole 231 pages.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied police do not open a parish file for a rite. That is a political crime with a header.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Neither priest did anything wrong. Write that on the cover and keep Blanche on the hunt.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I get a write-up for a missed punch. They got a domain perspective for a Mass.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A boy watching a priest get a federal stare learns the wrong lesson about America.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A bureau that hunts a pew will miss a cell. Point the radar back at the actual plot.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Just the News printed 231 pages, two priests, credit checks, and Blanche's line. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Close the parish file. Keep the First Amendment. A Mass is not a predicate.
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