Nicholas Giordano, writing at The Federalist, argues that "[t]he real Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) scandal isn’t just the indictment. The deeper scandal is that the FBI used a highly partisan activist group as an unelected, unvetted intelligence wing of the federal bureaucracy." He adds:
For years, the bureau didn’t just consult the SPLC. It folded the group’s ideology into its threat assessments and other work products, then used those products to brand Americans as hateful or flag them as potential domestic violent extremists.
How did this work out in practice?
The FBI’s Richmond memo, better known as the anti-Catholic memo, showed exactly what that pipeline looked like in practice. The FBI used the SPLC’s analysis to define so-called “radical-traditionalist Catholics” by their opposition to abortion, LGBT ideology, and adherence to traditional family values. Sen Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed that one Richmond analyst produced a slide presentation that equated Catholic beliefs in “[c]onservative family values/roles” with ideas “[c]omparable to Islamist ideology.”
Despite former FBI Director Christopher Wray’s claim that the anti-Catholic memo was the work of “a single field office” with limited distribution, the records tell a different story. Multiple field offices were involved, the memo was distributed to more than 1,000 agents and employees, and congressional investigators uncovered at least 13 more documents using similar SPLC-driven “anti-Catholic terminology.” Ideological narrative laundering became the FBI’s standard practice.
FBI officials themselves recognized the problem. In an internal FBI email exchange, one official asked, “Is anyone really asking for a product like this?” and complained that “[a]pparently we are at the behest of the SPLC.” Another FBI official admitted the FBI’s “overreliance on the SPLC hate designations is … problematic.”
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The ADL does their part to slander Whites, too. They maintain a "Hate Symbols" database, which is used by law enforcement.
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DeleteThat's part of the scandal. Part of it is the endless circular river of money connecting far-Left activist groups, the Deep State, and the Democratic Party.
ReplyDeleteSome of the activist lawyers the Kenyan installed at DoJ about fifteen years back had a brilliant idea. When they were going after and fining various large businesses in the US on this or that quasi-legal pretext, they'd call them up and say "Let's make a deal. You can pay us eight hundred million dollars in fines for hiring too many wypipo, or you can make a charitable donation for half that and we'll wipe the books clean. Now, there are some conditions. The donation has to be made to one of this list of charities we approve, that are totally legit..." Who were these charities? The SPLC. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Greenpeace. BLM. The Open Society Foundation. And on and on. Democrat lawyers in the government funneled at least a hundred billion dollars of what was legally supposed to be government funds into the pockets of Democrat lawyers on the opposite side of the NGO-to-Deep-State revolving door, who returned the favor when it was their turn a few years later. Under Biden it only accelerated and became more brazen.
Let me know when people start going to jail for this.
That's the part that sucks: no one is ever going to jail over any of it.
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