Those Catholic Terrorists

 I tried to make sense of this story that came out over the weekend....the House is demanding the FBI leadership show up and explain this plan they had....to infiltrate a Catholic Church and gather intelligence on domestic terrorism.  

This comes from a document that was 'floated' over to  the House: “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.”

In simple terms....at least one operation was being carried out, and no one is sure how far this goes.

I sat and pondered over this. 

You'd have secret undercover agent 'Joe' who would move into an area....set himself up with a fake ID....join a church group, and act radicalized.....to get members of the church who might be 'fringe-like'.....and bring him into the inner circle.

Extremists within the Catholic Church?  Extremists within the Baptist Church?  Extremists within the Scientology Church?  Extremists  within the Jewish or Buddhist groups?

I would probably start to ask if you have too many agents.  

Why can't you put them into university settings, or within banks, or within CNN, or within the Republican Party?  

The House now likely to tear up this guy who authorized this?  I would imagine he's looking around for a retirement option or maybe some Twitter job....so he can leave in a hurry.

My advice?  If you are attending a church, and suddenly some new gal or guy shows up, and they seem fake-interested in making a friendship with you....you'd best go over their past history.  If they just moved into the community in the past month....ask for references and dig into the background.  If nothing makes sense....they probably are FBI.  

Something about this whole thing seems 1930ish to me.