Blogger Comment: This shows in a little way that the Democrats hierarchy and leadrship are against Christianity and Catholics in particular and where many of their voters will be of Catholic belief…sad that the American people are being duped…continually by these ‘very dark’ people and their political party…

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Newly released internal FBI documents reveal that the Biden-era bureau relied so heavily on the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that its own attorneys warned agents appeared to be treating the private activist organization like a government agency.

The records shed new light on the FBI’s infamous Richmond memorandum, which portrayed “radical traditionalist Catholics” as potential domestic violent extremists and proposed infiltrating Catholic communities to gather intelligence.

The FBI withdrew the memo after it triggered congressional investigations, an inquiry by the Justice Department inspector general, and accusations that the bureau was profiling Americans because of their religious beliefs.

Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information Act litigation now show that senior FBI officials quickly recognized a central problem: agents had imported the SPLC’s political labels into a federal intelligence product without determining whether the organization’s standards were credible or consistent with the FBI’s own definitions.

FBI Lawyer Warned Agents Were Treating SPLC Like Government

The American Center for Law and Justice obtained the emails through litigation against the federal government.

In one message, an attorney with the FBI’s Office of General Counsel raised concerns about the bureau’s relationship with the SPLC.

“It seems that some of our folks may be equating a third-party organization with another government organization, and perhaps we need to remind the workforce about non-governmental organizations,” the attorney wrote.

The ACLJ called the admission evidence of a dangerous ideological relationship inside the federal government.

“That statement in and of itself is a remarkably dangerous implication of the Deep State,” the organization said.

The Richmond memo relied on SPLC material to associate traditionalist Catholic beliefs with extremism, including the organization’s declaration that such Catholics “may make up the largest single group of serious anti-Semites in America.”

FBI Leadership Identified ‘Fatal Flaw’

The newly released records show that FBI intelligence officials questioned whether agents had performed even basic scrutiny of the SPLC’s claims.

Tonya Ugoretz, then-assistant director of the FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence, warned colleagues that the bureau had relied on the organization’s subjective list of alleged hate groups without examining how those designations were made.

“With respect to sourcing (in particular, SPLC): SPLC has been a source for statistics and data not otherwise available to law enforcement,” Ugoretz wrote.

“However, this product cites more subjective information from SPLC (a list of hate groups) without examining SPLC’s threshold for determining a hate group or explanation of how that threshold aligns with the FBI’s definition.”

The ACLJ said the records expose the “fatal flaw” behind the Catholic-targeting memo.

“The FBI appears to have imported the conclusions of a private advocacy organization without first performing the basic analytic work necessary to determine whether those conclusions satisfied federal law enforcement standards,” the group said.

SPLC Labels Conservative Christians ‘Hate Groups’

The SPLC has routinely placed conservative and Christian organizations on its “hate group” lists when they oppose the organization’s positions on abortion, gender ideology, marriage, and sexuality.

The Family Research Council has remained among the groups targeted by those labels.

In 2012, a gunman who later admitted he intended to carry out a mass shooting at the organization’s headquarters used the SPLC’s website to identify the group.

Despite that history, the Biden FBI relied on the SPLC while assessing whether Catholic Americans could pose an extremist threat.

The internal records further reveal that agents considered using Catholic churches and religious communities as potential avenues for intelligence collection.

ACLJ: FBI Cannot Outsource Judgment to Left-Wing Activists

The ACLJ argued that private political organizations are free to publish partisan reports and condemn groups they oppose, but federal law enforcement cannot treat those conclusions as verified intelligence.

“Private organizations are free to publish reports, promote political positions, and label other groups as they see fit,” the organization said.

“But their conclusions are not judicial findings.

“They are not official intelligence assessments.

“And they cannot substitute for independently verified evidence of criminal conduct.”

The group warned that the FBI’s conduct crossed a constitutional line by allowing a private left-wing organization to shape intelligence gathering against religious Americans.

“Federal law enforcement must investigate criminal conduct — not disfavored theology, traditional religious practice, or constitutionally protected political beliefs,” the ACLJ said.

“The FBI cannot outsource its judgment to a private far-Left ideological organization and then use that organization’s subjective labels to justify intelligence collection involving churches and religious communities.”

The Richmond memo was withdrawn after the FBI admitted it failed to meet bureau standards.

The newly released emails now show why.

Under the Biden administration, the FBI did not merely consult a partisan activist group.

Its own lawyers feared agents had begun treating the SPLC as though it were part of the government.

Follow the link for the source… https://slaynews.com/documents-biden-fbi-treated-far-left-splc-government-agency-targeting-catholics/

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