The Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group released a bombshell report detailing how the Biden-era FBI expanded an investigation of one dangerous criminal suspect into a disturbing intelligence operation targeting Catholic priests, traditional Catholic churches and constitutionally protected religious beliefs.
The 231-page Richmond Domain Perspective Report concludes that personnel responsible for the disgraceful intelligence product have now been removed.
“The FBI personnel involved in the creation of the Richmond Catholic Memo have been terminated from their positions,” the report states.
The Justice Department did not publicly identify the terminated personnel.
The DOJ announced Thursday that investigators reviewed more than 1,800 pages of internal emails, intelligence assessments and investigative records concerning the FBI Richmond Field Office’s infamous January 2023 memorandum.
The report reveals that FBI personnel:
- Opened investigative “Guardian” assessments on two Catholic priests.
- Examined the priests’ travel and communications.
- Pulled airline and credit-card information.
- Searched one priest’s phone at Boston Logan International Airport.
- Followed that priest from the airport to a private residence.
- Conducted surveillance outside another residence associated with him.
- Proposed cultivating Catholic clergy and church leaders as “tripwires” and sources.
- Considered elevating the Richmond memo into a national intelligence product for senior FBI leadership.
- Continued revising the project even after FBI headquarters ordered the original memo removed from bureau systems.
The FBI eventually closed both assessments after finding no national-security threat or evidence linking the priests to violent extremism.
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