Posted on 04/18/2023 7:49:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine gave the FBI his approval to investigate Catholic parishes in his own state on Monday.
When asked by a local ABC affiliate about the FBI’s Richmond division infiltrating Catholic communities to spy on the church for alleged extremism, Kaine called the revelations a misunderstanding.
“I think the key is communication,” Kaine told ABC13. “If the FBI has a concern like that, then go to the church leaders and say, ‘Hey look, we have a concern and we don’t want your members to get unwittingly caught up in something.'”
Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin blew the whistle on the agency’s Richmond office investigating the Catholic Church with undercover informants in February. The FBI, Seraphin wrote, “would like to protect Virginians from the threat of ‘white supremacy,’ which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass.”
“The document assesses with ‘high confidence’ the FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church,” Seraphin warned.
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House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee responded to the news with a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray earlier this month. “We know 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,'” Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio wrote in the subpoena cover letter.
Kaine said Monday that the FBI has been running similar surveillance of American Muslims.
“We’ve done the same thing for years working in tandem with mosques because there have been groups that have tried to target or radicalize, especially young people,” the senator said.
Despite the FBI’s targeting of Catholics, U.S. bishops remained silent.
“The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops is a powerful organization, with a 2018 budget of more than $200 million, much of it from federal grants and contracts,” The Federalist’s Evita Duffy-Alfonso reported in February. “What has the Catholic Church hierarchy had to say in the seven days since the slanderous leak? Nothing.”
The conference never responded to The Federalist’s inquiries. Bishop Barry Knestout was the only U.S. bishop to speak out on the issue one week after the February whistleblower report.
The old “we’re here to help you” canard.
Timmy’s elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top. It never has.
Several conservative churches are splitting off from the United Methodist Church.
It would be naive to assume the FBI was not infiltrating those Methodist churches too.
Senator, tell me you are a communist without actually saying you are a communist.
Is it OK to put FBI informants in a mosque?
Is it OK for the FBI to put spies into Mosques? I’m sure they did after 9/11.
To them, this is the same thing.
THIS! is the man who wanted to be Hillary’s running mate.
The fbi wanted to find a Catholic loner and then convince him to shoot up an abortion clinic after they give him some guns.
RE: Is it OK for the FBI to put spies into Mosques?
Are churches sanctuaries for terrorists? If so, I’d like them to identify a few ( similar to the 911 hijackers ).
Lets make up a nonexistent threat and ignore the millions of foreigners pouring into the country illegally. These folks are truly the scum of the earth.
And that is why Tim Kaine the communist wasn’t elected president!
Six seconds. SIX SECONDS!
If you like police states and wiping your feet on the Constitution, he makes perfectly good sense. If you don’t like them, then I guess you might expect a visit from the FBI too.
Remember when a bunch of faithful Catholics flew planes into the WTC center shouting “Gloria in excelsis Deo!”
Is Tim Kaine homosexual?
….As long as the FBI goes to the imam and tells him they have concerns that the arabic worship language may be a symptom of islamic supremacy
I remember something about separation of church and state ,D’oh
If I drank enough Bud Light, I might actually believe that ...
Yet ANOTHER reason not to drink Bud Light.
RE: Is Tim Kaine homosexual?
How is that relevant to spying on churches?
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