Weaponization of Government Committee Chair, Jim Jordan, has obtained internal documents that reveal Chris Wray’s FBI sent undercover agents into Catholic churches to investigate the parishes for “domestic extremism”.
The FBI agents are engaging in outreach to Catholic leaders to spy on Americans practicing their Christian faith.
“Based on the limited information produced by the FBI to the Committee,” Jim Jordan writes in a letter to FBI director Christopher Wray, “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.”
At least one undercover agent was already used in an attempt to help identify “radicalization” from within.
FOX News reported:
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.”
“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.
Rep. Jim Jordan published the letter he wrote to FBI Director Chris Wray Monday.
There is no evidence to suggest that the FBI is infiltrating, or even investigating, actual domestic extremist groups, like the Antifa, Jane’s Revenge, or the trans terrorist group that assaulted and held Riley Gaines hostage.
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Jordan notes that this “shocking information” and that it “reinforces” the need for the FBI to respond to the committee’s subpoenas and requests for information. He brings up the leaked bulletin from an FBI field office in Richmond earlier this year which identified Catholics who attend Latin Mass as potential domestic extremists.
The FBI later withdrew that bulletin, which was based on far-leftist sources and definitions, but it appears that the FBI’s targeting of Catholics was not limited to one field office bulletin.
The letter cites a document provided to the committee, and states that “From this selective production, we know that the FBI, relying on information derived from at least one undercover employee, sought to use local religious organizations as ‘new avenues for tripwire and source development.'”
In a section entitled Opportunities, cited by the letter, it reads “In addition to [redaction], engage in outreach to the leadership of other [Society of Saint Pius X] chapels in the FBI Richmond [area of responsibility] to sensitize these congregations to the warning signs of radicalization and to enlist their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires.”
The FBI, per Jordan, “similarly noted two other opportunities to engage in outreach with religious institutions in the Richmond area, citing a desire ‘to sensitize the congregation to the warning signs of radicalization and enlist their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires.’
“This outreach plan even included contacting so-called ‘mainline Catholic parishes’ and the local ‘diocesan leadership’. The FBI also expressed an interest in ‘leverag[ing] existing sources and/or initiat[ing] Type 5 Assessments to develop new sources with the placement and access’ to report on suspicious activity.”
