Well it sure took them long enough……<\/p>\n
Kash Patel\u2019s FBI Cuts All Ties to Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a><\/p>\n FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL\u2014The FBI has confirmed that it severed all ties to\u00a0the Southern Poverty Law Center,<\/a>\u00a0a far-left activist group that puts conservatives and Christians on a \u201chate map\u201d along with Ku Klux Klan chapters. The \u201chate map\u201d has inspired at least one terrorist attack against a conservative organization.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,\u201d FBI Director Kash Patel\u00a0told The Daily Signal<\/a>\u00a0in a statement Friday. \u201cTheir so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership,\u201d Patel added.<\/p>\n The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you.\u00a0Donate now<\/a><\/p>\n The FBI confirmed that it has no intelligence products from the SPLC and does not engage in contact or information sharing with the SPLC.<\/p>\n The statement comes days after Patel told\u00a0Fox News Digital<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0FBI had severed ties<\/a>\u00a0with the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish nonprofit that opposes antisemitism but also leans left and condemns critics of transgender ideology.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While the SPLC began as a public interest law firm focused on civil rights cases, it gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy and developed a decades-long relationship with law enforcement combating real hate. After the Klan largely disappeared, the SPLC started targeting mainstream conservative and Christian groups, putting them on a \u201chate map\u201d alongside Klan chapters.<\/p>\n In 2012, a domestic terrorist used the \u201chate map\u201d to target the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank in Washington, D.C. He planned to kill everyone in the building. A building manager largely foiled the attack, but suffered lifelong injuries in the process. The SPLC condemned the attack, but kept the council on the \u201chate map\u201d ever since.<\/p>\n The man who opened fire at a Republican practice session for the Congressional Baseball Game in 2017, nearly killing then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, had \u201cliked\u201d the SPLC on Facebook. The SPLC condemned that attack, as well.<\/p>\n The SPLC added Turning Point USA to the \u201chate map\u201d mere months before an assassin with a transgender boyfriend allegedly murdered Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n The SPLC condemned the attack, but has not removed Turning Point USA from the \u201chate map.\u201d<\/p>\n A bureau official told The Daily Signal that the FBI was aware that the \u201chate map\u201d included Turning Point USA before the shooting.<\/p>\nHow SPLC Inspired Violence<\/h2>\n