FBI Office Nixes Ash Wednesday, Breaking Decades-Old Tradition

An FBI whistleblower revealed Tuesday that the FBI’s Chicago office this year disinvited a Catholic priest who was slated to administer ashes for Ash Wednesday. The move by FBI authorities broke a decades-long tradition.

“I guess [the FBI] wasn’t spanked hard enough for the Radical Traditional Catholics intel report,” tweeted Steve Friend, a former FBI agent who blew the whistle last year on an agency scandal involving officials fudging data in order to give the public an impression of higher rates of radical right-wing domestic terrorism than actually existed. -- More...