Senator Josh Hawley is once again doing what few in Washington have the courage to do—calling out the FBI and the Biden administration for what appears to be a systemic campaign of harassment and intimidation against Christians and pro-life Americans.
In a pointed letter to newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel, Hawley demanded a full investigation into alleged Biden-era abuses targeting people of faith and pro-life activists. The Missouri senator isn’t mincing words—he’s calling out the FBI’s Richmond field office for authoring a now-infamous memo that labeled traditionalist Catholics as potential “security risks.” You read that right: not Antifa, not radical environmental extremists, but Catholics—targeted by their own government simply for believing in church teachings older than the United States itself.
Hawley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, wants answers. He’s giving the FBI until April 30 to turn over 22 specific memos and internal communications that could expose how far the Biden administration’s politicized FBI has gone in trampling religious liberty and violating the First Amendment.
He’s also demanding all communications with state and local law enforcement related to these policies—because it wasn’t just the Richmond office acting alone. There’s reason to believe this anti-Christian surveillance was considered, and maybe even implemented, at multiple levels of law enforcement.
Let’s not forget, this comes after the FBI’s disgraceful raids on peaceful pro-life activists, including the high-profile case of Mark Houck, a Pennsylvania father of seven whose home was raided by armed agents. His crime? Defending his child from a deranged pro-abortion activist outside a Planned Parenthood clinic. Biden’s DOJ tried to bury him under FACE Act charges—and lost in court. But the message was loud and clear: if you’re pro-life and Christian, this administration sees you as the enemy.
During Patel’s confirmation hearing earlier this year, Hawley hit him with a question that every American should be asking: “Do you think it’s appropriate for the FBI to single out and target people of faith in order to discourage the exercise of their First Amendment rights?”
Patel responded with a promise: if confirmed, he’d investigate abuses and hold people accountable. Well, now’s his chance to prove it.
Hawley made it clear that “transparency and accountability will be paramount in restoring Americans’ faith in the Bureau.” He’s right. The FBI has become a shadow of its former self—no longer the agency that goes after mobsters and terrorists, but one that monitors parents at school board meetings and spies on rosary-praying Catholics.
The war on faith didn’t start under Kash Patel, but it better end with him. If the FBI wants to be taken seriously again, it needs to come clean about its political weaponization, stop treating Christians like suspects, and start respecting the Constitution.
It’s time for the swamp to learn: the American people won’t sit quietly while their most sacred rights are trampled by a regime that views God-fearing patriots as threats. Hawley is doing his job. Now it’s time for the FBI to do theirs—or face the consequences.
