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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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.[/b]

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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All of this ^^.  Especially the bolded.[/quote]

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