Apparently the FBI relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center for its anti-Catholic memo
Wonderful, just wonderful.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of those institutions that once was part of the fight for civil rights in the South and later became something else – in this case, a leftist propaganda machine against the right, specializing in labeling perfectly ordinary conservative groups as “hate groups.” Then the MSM and the left can quote the SPLC to smear its opponents on the right. Many readers are fooled; the FBI shouldn’t be.
The FBI Richmond office’s notorious anti-Catholic memo reached more staff at the bureau than previously suggested, and some FBI staff were aghast to see it, according to new documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Tuesday.
The memo urged FBI agents to develop sources and surveil Catholic churches, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “radical traditional Catholic hate groups.” The SPLC’s “hate map” plots conservative and Christian groups alongside Ku Klux Klan chapters. While the SPLC claims to be exposing “the infrastructure upholding white supremacy,” critics say it uses the map to silence political opponents.
The FBI rushed to rescind the document after a whistleblower leaked it in February 2023. Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in July 2023 that the memo came from “a single product by a single field office, which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems.” Yet Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has claimed Wray may have lied under oath because multiple FBI offices were involved in creating the memo.
Grassley announced Tuesday that he found evidence that the memo had been disseminated to at least 1,000 FBI staff.
So, it was circulated, and Wray apparently lied about how widely. And we would know nothing about this if the Democrats had won the 2024 election.
Of course, this memo was hardly the only thing wrong with the FBI. But at least it seems to have gotten a certain amount of pushback from the FBI rank-and-file.
…which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems. — Chris Wray
I love this sort of dodge (sarc). Can anyone prove when Chris Wray found out about it?? Probably, only one or two people at best, who are not going to talk about it.
Of course the FBI wasn’t “fooled”. They and the SPLC are on the same team and likely work closely together. The SPLC are regarded as the Absolute Unbiased Authority, so the FBI is free to target the groups they want to once the SPLC gives them the seal of approval (probably after asking them for it in many cases), and then they can’t be at fault, since they are only abiding the Experts.
And this is the consequences
https://x.com/Sultanknish/status/1930315285070000284
When you misapply resources
Yes cair splc and other outfits were consulting authorities with homeland and other agencies once holder and brennan and others has purged the records of identifiers of jihadism
What you dont know will kill you eventually
The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of those institutions that once was part of the fight for civil rights in the South
Not without a time machine. It wasn’t founded until 1971. The issues it fought for were racial gerrymandering of electoral districts, bankrupting the remains of the Klan and other groups of no significance, suing Roy Moore over the Ten Commandments, illegal immigration, enriching its founder with donations from credulous New Yorkers and in the last twenty years being part of the left-wing smear machine.
His last target of note was tom metzger that was more than 30 year ago
Whether metzger hitting geraldo was a good thing is well left to your opinion
Let’s not forget that Christopher Wray was appointed by President Trump. Trump 45 made some really bad personnel picks, but especially in the justice department with Jeff Sessions, Christopher Wray, Rod Rosenstein, William Barr for just a few off the top of my head. His SCOTUS picks also backfired, with Barrett and Kavanaugh particularly bad. Let’s hope Trump 47’s are better.
As to cabinet appointments, so far, Marco Rubio has stood out but all are serviceable. The Isaacman flame out was for the best since the future of space exploration is in the private sector, not the government bureaucracy
@Bob Wilson:His SCOTUS picks also backfired
Yes, despite highly recommended by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. How about that.
18 U.S.C. Section 1001 & 1621 lead me to wonder, if new evidentiary proof of lying during testimony before Congress later emerges, can a subsequent administration prosecute? There is an unofficial 5 yr limit on prosecutions for violating 18 U.S.C. Section 1621 and though it has rarely been enforced, a valuable precedent could be set for accountability. Perhaps the first action of any incoming administration should be to require every mid-level and above federal official to testify before the appropriate congressional committee in which direct hard hitting questions are asked. In addition, federal officials convicted of 18 U.S.C. can never be employed again by the fed. gov’t.
To have any value as a deterrent, consequence must be personal…
“Federal officials who lie under oath to Congress face penalties of up to five years in prison under 18 U.S.C. Section 1621. This section criminalizes perjury, which is defined as knowingly and willfully making a false statement under oath in an official proceeding. If the false statement is related to terrorism, human trafficking, or certain sex offenses, the maximum penalty can be increased to eight years. Additionally, there’s a separate statute, 18 U.S.C. Section 1001, that prohibits knowingly and willfully making false statements in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch. The penalty for violating Section 1001 is also a maximum of five years in prison, or eight years if the offense involves terrorism, human trafficking, or certain sex offenses.”
The $PLC is a direct mail mill which has never had any purpose but to provide a living for it’s founders and employees. It was exposed as such by metropolitan newspapers in Alabama in 1995 and by Harper’s magazine in 2000.
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It’s not difficult to locate the skinny on the $PLC, so you have to ask why commercial companies, government agencies, the news media, &c make use of it as an authoritative source. The answer almost certainly is a combination of incompetence, malevolence, and validation of biases.
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Have a gander at Steve Sailer’s experience. For ten years, he was unable to give a talk in a public place. The $PLC would send out the bat signal to sorosphere hooligans and slander him to hotel management. One reason VDARE bought that odd building in West Virginia was to be able to hold public meetings. You’ll note that the building was the conduit for Letitia James to launch lawsuits which destroyed the organization.
Maybe SPLC needs to be on the government “terrorist” list and denied access to everything. Their actions are certainly anti-American. Make it so that every information entity that uses information the SPLC furnishes acknowledges the status of the organization as a terror enabler.
need to reviel the SPLC finaces . a lot off shore!!! the president makes a lot of money. Neo please research this and publish it
The SPLC wasn’t around for the Selma March, but it was part of the Civil Rights movement:
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, for its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs? The SPLC was founded by Morris Dees, Joseph J. Levin Jr., and Julian Bond in 1971 as a civil rights law firm in Montgomery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
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I knew a Green Beret turned KKK who served ten years in federal prison for trying to buy a rocket launcher to blow up SPLC headquarters.
The SPLC wasn’t around for the Selma March, but it was part of the Civil Rights movement
Thats the Wikipedia narrative but take a look at their actual cases. They did nothing meaningful for civil rights. The closest they got was to help establish racial gerrymanders, which are only “civil rights” to Leftists.
Fun fact – I went to school with one of Morris Dees’ granddaughters.
Funner fact – it was a school that got its start as a segregation academy.
but it was part of the Civil Rights movement:
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If aiding and abetting the expansion of Mrs. Morris Dees’ collection of expensive knick-knacks makes you a part of the ‘civil rights movement’, yeah.
Re: SPLC / Civil Rights Movement
I was alive back then and I don’t recall the Civil Rights Movement stopped like a spigot turned off after the 60s. For instance:
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Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia,during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971, he co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, and served as its first president for nearly a decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Bond
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I’m sure Julian Bond considered his work after the 60s to be a continuation of his work in Civil Rights.
The civil rights movement may not have “stopped like a spigot turned off” after the 60s but in retrospect it went downhill pretty fast after the assassination of Martin Luther King as the Jacksons and Sharptons took over.
Ah julian bond was a clown early on (a parody of himself on snl)
Ah julian bond was a clown early on (a parody of himself on snl)
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The most prominent among them all pretty much ended up in political office, on the patronage of higher education, or on the patronage of the non-profit blob. One of the few who had an ordinary work life after 1971 was Rap Brown, who owned and operated a specialty grocery store in Atlanta. Alas, he ended up in prison eventually. Among the minority who might have had more agreeable lives if they’d stayed out of extraparliamentary politics are MLK (you could argue), Medgar Evers (lapsed insurance salesman) and Hosea Williams (once a chemist employed by the USDA). IIRC, Medgar Evers widow Myrlie has for the most part lived an ordinary life since 1963.