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Rod Keller is on assignment and we don’t get a day off this week. So we’re going to have a little fun today at the expense of Star magazine. Continue reading How dishonest is tabloid media about Scientology? Here’s a pretty good example.
A new release of government documents shows that the FBI took very seriously the Church of Scientology’s complaints about the Anonymous movement when it burst on the scene in January 2008, and the law enforcement agency spent months trying to find, in particular, the person who sent more than 20 letters to Southern California Scientology churches that contained a white powder. Continue reading DOX: The FBI’s 2008 investigation of Anonymous and its attacks on the Church of Scientology
Our readers tend to be very observant, and we were reminded of that again recently when a Bunker regular reached out to us with some things he’d noticed about Scientology’s reaction to the new season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. Continue reading Scientology’s new ‘STAND’ front unleashes bot army on Twitter — and gets zapped
[Ray Jeffrey, and the Rathbuns]On Tuesday morning, three attorneys who used to represent Monique and Mark “Marty” Rathbun are scheduled to go into a San Antonio courtroom and argue that the judge (who will be assigned to the case that morning) should order that the Rathbuns sit for sworn depositions and turn over a large number of financial records. Continue reading What’s at stake in Tuesday’s San Antonio court hearing with Scientology’s former enforcer
Last year in January we reported on some stunning new data that researcher R.M. Seibert managed to pry out of the US government with help from the MuckRock website. For years, Scientology watchers like Jeff Jacobsen had noticed that Scientology seemed to rely on foreign workers at its major bases, and that they were being brought in under a “religious worker” visa, also known as R-1. Continue reading Scientology shows no sign of slowing down its use of religious visas for foreign labor
Tonight’s episode of Scientology and the Aftermath packed quite a punch for us, even though we were already pretty familiar with both stories that Leah Remini and Mike Rinder tell in this, the second installment of the second season. Continue reading Tonight on ‘Aftermath’: Suicide in Scientology, where sympathy and compassion are outlawed
[What an FBI raid based on these documents might have looked like]Several weeks ago, we got access to the FBI’s file on its 2009-2010 human trafficking investigation of the Church of Scientology when Melissa Cronin of RadarOnline shared her copy with us, with certain restrictions. Continue reading DOX: The full FBI file from its 2009-2010 human trafficking investigation of Scientology
Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. For more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend to get hashed and rehashed in books, articles, and especially on the Internet. Continue reading What Scientology itself says about the way it’s going to change how your mind works
[Scientology never fails to take cheap shots with photos]Last month, when Clearwater, Florida’s Pastor Willy Rice notified his congregation at Calvary Church that Leah Remini was planning on filming an episode of A&E’s Scientology and the Aftermath at his church, he warned his flock that the Church of Scientology had a history of attacking its critics. Continue reading As he predicted, Pastor Willy Rice gets the Scientology ‘Fair Game’ treatment
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