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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DOJ is saying that SPLC should’ve informed donors that they were paying informants within the hate orgs.

What’s the actual crime here? A violation of nonprofit tax rules? [/quote]

The problem runs much deeper than merely paying hateful people who turned informer.

The FBI itself used the SPLC as an unelected, unvetted intelligence wing of the federal bureaucracy. For years, the FBI didn’t just consult the SPLC; it adopted the group’s ideology as its threat assessments and other work products, then used those products to brand certain Americans as hateful or flag them as potential domestic violent extremists.

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.”

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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