It is well known that the FBI under President Biden operated an anti-Catholic cell group within the Agency. Yet some in the media, especially the Associated Press, MSNOW and the New York Times, are trying hard to exonerate the FBI spy ring.
The most egregious attempt to cover-up for Biden’s FBI was committed by MSNOW and the Times: they focused their remarks on the Justice Department’s inspector general report. MSNOW said the report found “no evidence of anti-Catholic bias or malicious intent.” Similarly, the Times said the report showed “no evidence of malicious intent.”
These media outlets are referring to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s conclusion that the probe of Catholics “lacked sufficient evidence” to establish a relationship between the extremists and Radical Traditionalist Catholic ideology, but “there was no evidence of malice.”
Had they not been so incurious they would have dug deeper and raised reasonable questions. I did. I addressed this issue in my letter of March 24, 2025 to Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
“This begs the question: Why did the Analysts think there was a relationship in the first place? It is one thing to concede that there are racial and ethnic extremists in every religious and secular organization; it is quite another to assume a nexus between a mainstream religious organization and violence, especially when the grounds for making such an assumption are spurious.”
It is important to note that the idea that the FBI was only interested in extremist elements within the Catholic community was proven false—the FBI targeted what it admitted were “mainline” Catholics. FBI Director Christopher Wray said he was “appalled” to learn of this. Similarly, Attorney General Merrick Garland said he was “aghast” at this news.
It is also important to note that Biden’s FBI called Catholics “domestic terrorists” if they are “pro-life,” “pro-family,” and believe there are only two sexes. In other words, practicing Catholics are considered “domestic terrorists.” This at a time when true domestic terrorists, such as Antifa, were given a pass.
If malice was not evident in the FBI witch-hunt against practicing Catholics, what would the media call a large-scale spy operation that was based on just one person? Not only that, what if the one person had no affiliation with the group under scrutiny? That’s what happened under Biden’s FBI. I also addressed this aspect in my letter to Jordan.
The Horowitz report admitted that the entire probe was based on one person, Defendant A. That’s right—there was no Defendant B. Not only that, he did not even belong to the Catholic Church; he belonged to some splinter, break-a-way group.
To top things off, the report said that “he had been on the radar ‘as an unstable, dangerous individual’ before ‘any association with any Catholic related entity whatsoever.’” It added that “there was no evidence that Defendant A was being radicalized at the church he attended.”
As I said at the time, “That being the case, why was it necessary to investigate his fellow churchgoers? Since when does the FBI conduct an investigation of a world religion on the basis of one miscreant, who was not a member of it, and whom they admit was not radicalized by it?”
The media never addressed any of these matters.
If the Trump FBI was spying on Muslims on the basis of one crazy person who wasn’t even a Muslim, the media would be all over it. Moreover, they would find it risible to conclude that malice was not in play. But when the victims are Catholics, that’s a different story. Nice to know whose side they are on.
