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DOJ Weaponization Working Group releases report on 2023 FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics

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The internal memo was filed in the FBI's Richmond Field Office and attempted to link "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists" with "radical-traditionalist Catholic" ideology.

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  1. Just the News

    DOJ Weaponization Working Group releases report on 2023 FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics (opens Just the News)

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    The internal memo was filed in the FBI's Richmond Field Office and attempted to link "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists" with "radical-traditionalist Catholic" ideology.

  2. Breitbart News

    DOJ Report Exposes Biden FBI’s ‘Weaponized Bureaucracy’ Targeting Traditional Catholics (opens Breitbart News)

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    The Justice Department released a report Thursday detailing how the FBI linked traditional Catholic beliefs to domestic extremism and investigated two priests under the Biden administration.

  3. Legal Insurrection

    DOJ Report: FBI Targeted Catholics Over Traditional Beliefs (opens Legal Insurrection)

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    Another internal FBI review concluded the memo "almost explicitly states that RTC ideology is violent and extremist without offering any evidence." The post DOJ Report: FBI Targeted Catholics Over Traditional Beliefs first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion .

  4. Blaze Media

    Trump's DOJ exposes how the Biden FBI didn't stop targeting Catholics even after getting caught (opens Blaze Media)

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    The Biden FBI targeted adherents of what it dubbed "traditionalist Catholicism" and suggested in a widely distributed internal assessment that certain Catholic beliefs were linked to violent extremism and criminal activity.

  5. Pants on Fire News

    DOJ Report Reveals What Happened to the FBI Agents Who Targeted Catholic Priests (opens Pants on Fire News)

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    FBI agents in Richmond secretly investigated two Catholic priests who had broken no law and posed no threat. A new Justice Department report just revealed exactly what happened to those agents

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