[ April 22, 2024 ]
Christians are the problem? We only need to look at history to know how this is going to go.
FBI sought to develop sources in Catholic churches to combat domestic terrorism, docs show
FBI hit with subpoena for records by House Judiciary Committee
By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News
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The FBI recently sought to develop sources inside Christian churches and Catholic dioceses as part of an effort to combat domestic terrorism, according to internal documents released by House Judiciary Committee on Monday.
The internal documents — obtained last month by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., who are also members of the so-called Weaponization Subcommittee — showed the FBI planned to use churches as “new avenues for tripwire and source development.” The federal law enforcement agency also aimed to specifically target “mainline Catholic parishes” as part of its efforts.
In addition, according to Jordan, the FBI expressed interest in “leverag[ing] existing sources and/or initiat[ing] Type 5 Assessments to develop new sources with the placement and access.” And, in another example, the agency cited a desire to to sensitize religious congregations “to the warning signs of radicalization and enlist their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires.”
PURPORTED FBI DOCUMENT SUGGESTS AGENCY MAY BE TARGETING CATHOLICS WHO ATTEND LATIN MASS
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, conducts a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on March 9. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, conducts a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on March 9. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Based on the limited information produced by the FBI to the Committee, we now know that the FBI relied on at least one undercover agent to produce its analysis, and that the FBI proposed that its agents engage in outreach to Catholic parishes to develop sources among the clergy and church leadership to inform on Americans practicing their faith,” Jordan wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday.
Jordan also issued a subpoena for a series of related documents the committee previously requested from the FBI, but which the FBI has failed to provide.
“This information is outrageous and only reinforces the Committee’s need for all FBI material responsive to our request,” Jordan wrote to Wray. “The documents produced to date show how the FBI sought to enlist Catholic houses of worship as potential sources to monitor and report on their parishioners.”
“Americans attend church to worship and congregate for their spiritual and personal betterment,” the letter continued. “They must be free to exercise their fundamental First Amendment rights without worrying that the FBI may have planted so-called “tripwire” sources or other informants in their houses of worship.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray listens during a news conference at the Department of Justice on Jan. 27.
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9 Comments
1 year ago
People who want to live free are the problem. Free people, of any religion and no religion, are the enemy.
Kings use churches to paint their bloodlines and their position of authority and their conquest, white.
Out enemy would have us in a religious war to camouflage their conquest.
1 year ago
Who’s up for some LARPing? Chad and Stacey are coming over. We’re gonna take some red pill and blue pill and get totally based. Normies and incels need not apply.
1 year ago
A lay person might be forgiven, but any clergy discovered to put government before the church would excommunicated.
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1 year ago
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dunce
Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill is also FSB general who was spying in Switzerland for Russia.
Last edited 1 year ago by VTS
1 year ago
The only hope is gone … the American citizens have chosen their path – straight to hell … border, wars, cities, liberal judges .. bye bye, Miss American Pie.. sad, but true.
1 year ago
Persecution of Christians that they’d never do to Muslims shows just how deep in evil and darkness they’ve sunken! Just because we don’t wander away from the word of truth of Jesus makes us a target to use to scapegoat us like that abortion pill, it’s blame the Christian’s like nazis did to the Jewish people and proof that revelations spoke of in the run up to the coming of the antichrist! It’s also why we’re finding issues such as woke vicars bending to the will of the world trying to fit in instead of focusing on the gospel and feeding the flock to prepare themselves for times such as these and spread the word to save souls .
1 year ago
CRT’s, the government is just labeling all aspects of society as a potential danger so they can spy on us all. Social credit scores anyone!
This toilet needs to be flushed soon.
1 year ago
GOD, will get them.
