Nobody likes a “told ya so,” but here goes . . .
Back in 2023, when the FBI/Richmond witch hunt story broke, I tried to help the Bureau out by pointing out what I knew to be the basis for their so-called “investigation” of Latin Mass Catholics. The FBI was simply regurgitating a 2007 “Intelligence Report” on “Radical Traditional Catholics” served up by the notorious Southern Poverty Law Center.
Here is what I said at the time — Starts at Minute 6:50
A June 3, 2025, article on FoxNews.com entitled Grassley alleges FBI used biased sources in anti-traditional Catholic memos under Biden administration (Senator reveals FBI withheld documents linking traditional Catholics to extremism in Biden era) confirms what I said at the time:
“In a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Kash Patel, Grassley presented his findings while expressing frustration at the agency’s handling of the “anti-Catholic” memo under Wray and its alleged lack of transparency. Wray had told congressional lawmakers the memo was a single product by a single field office.
“Despite Wray’s claims that the memo was a single product, the FBI found at least 13 additional FBI documents and five FBI attachments that used the terminology “radical traditionalist Catholic” and cited the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Grassley said.
“The new documents released by Grassley show that the Richmond memo was distributed to more than 1,000 FBI employees nationwide. One email exchange shows the FBI’s field office in Buffalo, New York, expressing concerns about hate groups identified by the SPLC, mentioned in the Richmond memo, being in its area of responsibility.
“Grassley said the FBI may have relied on “deeply biased sources” used in the memo.
“These letters focused on the preparation of the memo, its dissemination, the use of biased sources such as the radical Southern Poverty Law Center, and later, the FBI’s misleading representations to Congress, including those of former Director Wray,” Grassley wrote.”
Told ya so!
The SPLC uses mis- and disinformation as a fundraising tool. They scare millions of dollars out their base of aging supporters by setting up bogeymen that do not exist. Their latest fundraiser dropped on May 25, 2025, and listed Focus on the Family in their so-called “Hate Map” as a dangerous “anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group.”
So, watch your back. If the Trump Administration really wants to curb hate in America, they could start by ordering the FBI and all other intelligence agencies to never take the Southern Poverty Law Center’s various fundraising scams seriously ever again.
In the meantime, traditional Catholics, watch your backs—these people want you dead and gone.
