Under President Joe Biden, the nation’s top law enforcement agency was weaponized against Catholics as the Democrats sought to spy on and intimidate them – but the reality is even darker than anyone imagined.
A whistleblower exposed in 2023 that under Biden’s leadership, the FBI had distributed a memo targeting Catholics over their religious beliefs. This memo was circulated widely among FBI employees, making it clear the agency had been greenlit to pursue innocent Americans based solely on their faith.
Initially, when this came to light, the Biden regime claimed the document was the work of a single rogue office — the Richmond field office — and “certainly” not official FBI policy.
But that turned out to be a brazen lie.
Bombshell internal documents released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) obliterate that excuse.
Grassley revealed that the FBI produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments targeting traditional Catholics — a pattern that shows clear intent, not an isolated mistake.
Even more disturbing: the source of much of this targeting was the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — a far-left activist group known for labeling conservatives and people of faith as “extremists.”
The FBI relied heavily on the SPLC’s biased designations, despite internal concern. One agent admitted the bureau’s “overreliance” on the SPLC was “problematic.”
In another memo, the Richmond field office explicitly linked Catholicism to extremism, claiming that followers of the largest religious group in America held traditional religious views that were more likely to make them “domestic extremists.”
Though this second memo was never published — likely due to the backlash over the first one — its existence shows the anti-Catholic bias was systemic, not incidental.
These documents also reveal that former FBI Director Chris Wray lied under oath when he told Congress the original memo was “a single product” — not part of a larger, coordinated effort. That claim has now been thoroughly debunked.
“I’m determined to get to the bottom of the Richmond memo, and of the FBI’s contempt for oversight in the last administration,” Grassley said in a letter to current FBI Director Kash Patel this week.
“I look forward to continuing to work with you to restore the FBI to excellence and prove once again that justice can and must be fairly and evenly administered — blind to whether we are Democrats or Republicans, believers or nonbelievers.”
For years, the SPLC has smeared what it calls “radical traditional Catholics.” It claims that some “white power activists” have “embraced the aesthetics and practices” of traditional Catholicism to supposedly undermine the Civil Rights movement.
That’s nonsense — nothing more than a pretext for the Left to attack devout Catholics, who often hold conservative, traditional values. But the most alarming revelation is that the FBI chose to partner with this openly hostile organization who very proudly wears its leftist bias as a badge of honor.
This is hard proof that Democrats used federal law enforcement to target their political and religious enemies — not in secret, but in coordination with activist groups. That’s not oversight. That’s ideological persecution.
It’s the behavior of an authoritarian regime — not a free republic.