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.
All this coming from a man who has an open marriage!
Uh ... you are telling nobody in the FBI is a Catholic or a Christian? (They are already there, idiots!)
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
Don’t mistake our kindness for weakness.
OTOH, I agree. Equating us with the deranged followers of Mad Mo is indeed slanderous. Or is it libelous? IANAL, and I can’t keep the two straight.
If we are unwilling to do our duty, maybe we should not complain...
'MAN' insinuates that this asshat has reached an adult level of male maturity! He has not!!!!!
Like their religion? Belief in something higher than government? Is that what you're worried about, Tim/FIB?
Does this include Muslim 🕌… I bet you it doesn’t.
Real police work looks at a crime that has actually been committed, and tries to find the perp and successfully prosecute him. This so-called "police work" is making up a mythical crime and then doing whatever it takes to come up with a perp.
Commies not welcome.
Of course, despite day after day we see large group of young black men and women on video terrorizing entire communities under the guise of social justice or reparations.
Would it be ok for church congregants to quietly drag them out into the woods, take off their clothes, and tell them never to return to their church?
Senator Tim Kaine: It’s OK For The FBI To Put Informants In Churches
“How about black churches?”
Kaine: “No”
The fbi will never mess with mosques.
They are on the same team.
One difference between Muslim jihadists and the supporters of traditional Catholicism is that the imams of many mosques approve of terrorism, while Catholic traditionalists are at odds with their church’s hierarchy. Another is that Catholics do not believe in suicidal missions to destroy their enemies. Unlike conservative Protestants, most traditional Catholics do not walk away from their church and form a new denomination.
Tim Kaine wants to eradicate religious freedom or any freedom that interferes with the Democrats plan to turn American into a dictatorship controlled by them and their super-wealthy cronies.
Run Gov. Yonugkim run, and beat that Marxist.
And a Paedo closeted. Very strange dude. His affiliation with BLM through his radicalized church (outside Richmond) is fully suspect.
The BLM website is still there and the “Donate” blue button takes one directly to “ACT Blue” a DNC front group the funnels the donations, all of them.
Entire thing is a front group, street thugs for demonrats.
How about putting an agent in Bus Boy’s inner circle and get his toe-tapping on record.
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