FBI cuts ties with two advocacy groups that track US extremism after rightwing backlash | FBI
FBI Director Kash Patel, the agency, for decades, internal extremism and racial and religious prejudices have cut ties with two organizations, this is a movement about the groups coming from some conservatives and President Donald Trump’s leading allies.
In a statement on Friday, Patel claimed that the FBI would restrict its relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), that the organization has been transformed into a “Partizan Smear machine ve, and that it was criticized for the use of an“ hate map ”that documented the anti -government and hate groups within the United States. Patel said at the beginning of the week, FBI will end the ties with Defamation Anti League (ADL), a leading Jewish advocacy organization struggling with anti -Semitism.
The announcements mean that at a time when Patel is rapidly moving to reshape the country’s leading federal law enforcement officers, the long -standing FBI partnerships are dramatic with the leading groups of civil rights. Over the years, organizations have conducted research on hate crime and indigenous extremism, law enforcement and other services – but some conservatives have been criticized for saying that their perspectives were unfairly malignant.
This criticism drew attention to the characterization of the group of SPLC, founded by Kirk after the assassination of the September 10 conservative activist Charlie Kirk. For example, SPLC contained a section in a turning point in a report titled “Hate and Extinction Annual Year Year ılan, which describes the group as“ hard -right case work ”. The leading figures, including Elon Musk, have recently scored SPLC on the statements of Kirk and the organization.
In 1971, the SPLC spokesman, a guard for minorities and inadequate legal and advocacy group, said that he did not directly dealt with Patel’s comments on Friday, but that the organization shared with the public for decades and decided to reveal hatred and extremes when he was determined to defend knowledge and security.
ADL also faced criticisms on the right to maintain the “extremist dictionary”. The organization has recently announced that a number of entrances have been outdated and some have been deliberately represented and abused because it has been abused.
Founded in 1913 to confront anti -Semitism, ADL has worked for a long time through award ceremonies that recognized law enforcement officers who are involved in investigations in racial or religiously motivated extremism, not only through research and education.
Former FBI Director James Comey praised this relationship in a judicial event: ında For more than 100 years, you have defended and fought for justice and equality for inclusion and acceptance. You are never indifferent or complement. ”
A patel antagonist, Comey was accused of false expression and blocking charges on September 25th and said he was innocent. Patel mocked Commek’s comments on Wednesday in an article in which he shared a Fox News story that cuts his ties with ADL in an article on X.
“James comey wrote ‘love letters’ to Adl and buried FBI agents with them – a group of embarrassing operations for the Americans,” he said, the most sacred day of the Jewish Jewish calendar is preparing to observe Yom Kippur. “That period is over. This FBI will not be partner with the political fronts masked as a guard.”
A judicial spokesman did not immediately comment on Patel’s announcement on Friday. However, CEO and Executive Director Jonathan Greenblatt said on Friday that ADL’s “deep respect” for the FBI, he said.
Greenblatt, in the light of an unprecedented anti -Semitism fluctuation, we are more determined than ever before to protect the Jewish people, ”he said.
