Tag: Radical-Traditionalist Catholics

FBI ‘Catholic Memo’ May Prove Latest Example of Biden Officials Misleading, Obstructing Congress

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Biden-era officials could face increasing legal pressure over misrepresentations to Congress about administration policy and where it overlapped with President Biden’s health as Republicans clamor for accountability.

Decisions by Biden Administration officials to hide key evidence, stubbornly delay responses to subpoenaed records, or allegedly cover up President Biden’s declining mental and physical health are facing new scrutiny from congressional Republicans now dealing with a cooperative executive branch. 

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Newly Released Emails Reveal FBI Spent Weeks Ahead of Covenant School Shooting Discussing Catholic Extremism

Tom Pappert
Rosary

Internal government emails released by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show individuals at multiple FBI field offices were assisting with the drafting a report identifying opportunities to mitigate the violent threats posted by “radical-traditionalist Catholics” during the weeks preceding the March 27, 2023 attack on the Covenant School in Nashville by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who identified as a transgender man when she claimed the lives of six. 

Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday published internal FBI emails that show the agency in February 2023 was drafting a Strategic Perspective Executive Analytic Report (SPEAR), which was titled, “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”

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