The Federal Bureau of Investigation has terminated five analysts linked to a retracted 2023 intelligence document concerning Catholic ideologies.

聯邦調查局已解僱五名分析師，這些人員與一份關於天主教意識形態且隨後被撤回的2023年情報文件有關。

The personnel actions involve four intelligence analysts and one supervisory analyst from the Richmond, Virginia, field office. These individuals were responsible for a January 2023 memorandum that hypothesized a correlation between 'Radical Traditionalist Catholic' perspectives and racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism. While the document was promptly retracted, it became a focal point for congressional critics who alleged that the previous administration utilized the bureau to target conservative demographics.

此次人事行動涉及維吉尼亞州里奇蒙分局的四名情報分析師與一名主管分析師。這些人員負責一份2023年1月的備忘錄，該文件假設「激進傳統天主教」觀點與基於種族或族群動機的暴力極端主義之間存在關聯。雖然該文件隨即被撤回，但卻成為國會批評者的焦點，他們指控前任政府利用該局來針對保守派群體。

Institutional reviews of the memorandum yielded divergent conclusions regarding culpability. An internal FBI assessment determined that the authors failed to adhere to analytic tradecraft standards, thereby creating an appearance of investigative activity based on religious affiliation. Conversely, a 2024 Justice Department inspector general report and prior internal inquiries concluded that there was no evidence of malicious intent, improper purpose, or discriminatory directives. Despite these findings of a lack of malice, the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias—established via executive order—asserted that the bureau had improperly scrutinized individuals devoid of criminal records and relied excessively on the Southern Poverty Law Center.

機構對該備忘錄的審查得出了分歧的結論。FBI內部評估認定，作者未能遵守分析專業標準，從而營造出基於宗教信仰進行調查活動的現象。相反，2024年司法部監察長報告及之前的內部調查結論認為，沒有證據顯示存在惡意、不當目的或歧視性指令。儘管調查結果顯示缺乏惡意，但透過行政命令成立的「根除反基督教偏見工作小組」聲稱，該局不當地審查了沒有刑事記錄的個人，且過度依賴南方貧困法律中心。

These terminations occur within a broader systemic realignment of personnel under Director Kash Patel. This administrative shift has seen the removal of numerous employees perceived as misaligned with current executive priorities, including agents involved in the investigation of President Trump's retention of classified materials. Parallel purges have been observed within the Department of Justice, specifically targeting prosecutors associated with FACE Act litigation.

這些解僱行動發生在局長Kash Patel領導下更廣泛的系統性人事重組之中。此次行政轉移導致許多被認為與現任行政優先事項不一致的員工被撤職，包括參與調查川普總統保留機密文件的探員。司法部內部也觀察到了平行的清洗行動，特別是針對與FACE法案訴訟相關的檢察官。

Five FBI analysts have been dismissed following a contested 2023 memo, coinciding with a wider purge of personnel deemed ideologically incongruent with the current administration.

五名FBI分析師因一份具爭議的2023年備忘錄而被解僱，這與一次更大規模的清洗行動同步，對象為被認為與現任政府意識形態不符的人員。