We now know something the Biden administration spent years denying: It wasn't merely enforcing the law around abortion clinics — it was allegedly partnering with abortion activists to identify, track and ultimately prosecute pro-life Americans.

And that should stop every honest person in their tracks.

Because if we're going to have a national conversation about presidents "attacking Catholics," as the media suddenly seems eager to do whenever President Donald Trump so much as raises an eyebrow at the Vatican, then we should probably start with the administrations that actually used the machinery of government to target religious believers.

Start with former President Barack Obama, who famously tried to force the Little Sisters of the Poor — nuns who devote their lives to serving the elderly poor — to violate their religious conscience.

Then move to former President Joe Biden, who, it now appears, went even further.

According to reporting from The Daily Wire, Biden's Department of Justice relied on intelligence gathered from radical pro-abortion groups to monitor peaceful pro-life activists — people who had not yet been charged with any federal crime — and then build cases that ended with FBI arrests.

The federal government was reportedly outsourcing its surveillance and investigative efforts to activist organizations that have a direct political and ideological stake in crushing the pro-life movement.

That's not law enforcement. That's a political operation.

The Daily Wire cites a DOJ report titled "The Biden Administration's Weaponization of the FACE Act," which examined more than 700,000 records. The FACE Act, of course, was originally intended to prevent physical obstruction of abortion clinic entrances. It was also meant to protect churches from disruption — a part of the law that the media rarely remembers exists until activists storm a sanctuary and decide worship services are an acceptable place to stage political theater.

But what the DOJ report allegedly found was far more troubling than an overzealous application........

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