{"id":1970902,"date":"2023-07-12T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-says-catholicvote-is-not-entitled-to-records-detailing-spying-of-catholic-churches\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:53:35","slug":"fbi-says-catholicvote-is-not-entitled-to-records-detailing-spying-of-catholic-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-says-catholicvote-is-not-entitled-to-records-detailing-spying-of-catholic-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI denies CatholicVote access to records on Catholic church surveillance."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-says-catholicvote-is-not-entitled-to-records-detailing-spying-of-catholic-churches%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1970902&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The FBI&#8217;s Battle to Block Release of Records on Traditional Catholic Communities<\/h2>\n<p>The FBI is currently facing a legal challenge as it seeks to prevent the release of records related to a controversial memo that targeted traditional Catholic communities for surveillance. This memo, which was later retracted, claimed that these communities posed a potential threat.<\/p>\n<p>The political advocacy organization CatholicVote took legal action against the FBI in April, demanding compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-says-catholicvote-is-not-entitled-to-records-detailing-spying-of-catholic-churches\/\" title=\"FBI denies CatholicVote access to records on Catholic church surveillance.\">request sought records<\/a> regarding the drafting and dissemination of the memo at the FBI&#8217;s Richmond, Virginia field office. The memo labeled &#8220;radical traditional Catholic&#8221; communities as potential sources of domestic extremism, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center. After the memo was leaked online, the FBI retracted it.<\/p>\n<h3>FBI&#8217;s Resistance to Releasing the Records<\/h3>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-l-a-to-offer-housing-to-homeless-population-on-skid-row-says-city-and-county-created-a-legacy-of-entrenched-structural-racism\/\" title=\"Judge Orders L.A. To Offer Housing To Homeless Population On Skid Row, Says City And County \u2018Created A Legacy Of Entrenched Structural Racism\u2019\">recent court filing<\/a>, the FBI argued against the release of the requested records, stating that CatholicVote was not entitled to them. The agency cited unspecified FOIA exemptions as the basis for its refusal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plaintiffs are not entitled to compel the production of records, or portions thereof, properly protected from disclosure by one or more FOIA exemptions or exclusions,&#8221; stated the FBI in its filing.<\/p>\n<p>During a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Christopher Wray addressed the memo and informed committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) that an internal investigation was underway regarding its drafting.<\/p>\n<p>Both the FBI and the Department of Justice declined to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>CatholicVote&#8217;s Determination to Obtain the Records<\/h3>\n<p>Brian Burch, the president of CatholicVote, expressed his organization&#8217;s determination to obtain the requested records. He revealed that the judge overseeing the case has scheduled a &#8220;briefing conference&#8221; later this month to discuss the FOIA request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the FBI&#8217;s efforts to block access to these documents, we are preparing to press the court to compel them to turn them over as quickly as possible,&#8221; Burch stated. &#8220;We are confident that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-27\/\" title=\"Education Insanity: Top 10 Stories Of The Week (Vol. 27)\">law supports<\/a> our request and are committed to defending the right of citizens to hold their government accountable in the face of what the Attorney General described as an &#8216;appalling&#8217; abuse of power.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is trying to prevent the disclosure of records related to a retracted memo suggesting surveillance of traditional Catholic communities. CatholicVote, a political advocacy group, filed a lawsuit against the FBI in April, demanding compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request for relevant documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1970903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}