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20 State AGs: 'SPLC Has Been Utterly Discredited as a Reliable Source'
Cybercast News Service ^ | February 14, 2023 | 4:19pm EST | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 02/14/2023 3:24:21 PM PST by Olog-hai

In a Feb. 10 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, 20 state attorneys general note that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “has been utterly discredited as a reliable source.”

The letter concerns the FBI’s targeting of traditional Catholics as potential “violent extremists” and its reliance on “hate group” information crafted by the SPLC as detailed in a Jan. 23 FBI memo , which was leaked to the public on Feb. 8.

The memo explains how the FBI Richmond Virginia office is assessing an alleged increase in the association of “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology.”

The letter from the attorneys general states, “After defining which Catholics are the dangerous ones, the [FBI] memorandum proposes dealing with those Catholics through ‘the development of sources with access,’ including in ‘places of worship.’” […]

“To allocate these ‘sources,’ the document includes an appendix with a list of Catholic ‘hate groups’ that was assembled by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), apparently without any independent vetting from the FBI,” reads the letter to Wray and Garland. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholics; doj; fbi; fib; splc; tradition
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1 posted on 02/14/2023 3:24:21 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Yes. We know... They always were.


2 posted on 02/14/2023 3:25:49 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Olog-hai

Honestly, Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray are unreliable too.

Unless you’re looking for evil liberal tools.


3 posted on 02/14/2023 3:29:06 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic!)
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To: Olog-hai

You can say the same about the ADL.


4 posted on 02/14/2023 3:29:55 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Olog-hai

They just noticed this?

I knew this rhe first time I picked up one of their “magazines” someone had left in the trash at the Post Office. Many decades ago.


5 posted on 02/14/2023 3:31:30 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: Olog-hai

This is no surprise to anyone, including the DOJ. This has been known for more than 20 years of my recollection, maybe longer.


6 posted on 02/14/2023 3:33:13 PM PST by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW) )
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To: Olog-hai

I am mildly surprised to see Georgia’s attorney general, Chris Carr, among the signatories. Good.


7 posted on 02/14/2023 3:35:48 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Other groundbreaking discoveries include the recent stunning revelation that water is wet


8 posted on 02/14/2023 3:36:26 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Dead Corpse

Yep.


9 posted on 02/14/2023 3:37:15 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Dead Corpse

The Meritless Garland finds the SPLC to be totally credible.


10 posted on 02/14/2023 3:37:21 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Angelino97

Yes, but does any politician have the guts to say that ?


11 posted on 02/14/2023 3:44:33 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Angelino97; escapefromboston

About any liberal organization.


12 posted on 02/14/2023 3:47:03 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

SPLC = Stupid People Loving Communism


13 posted on 02/14/2023 3:47:09 PM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s obviously a Maoist organization.


14 posted on 02/14/2023 3:51:06 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Olog-hai

Why would they do this? Yes, there are hate groups but the Catholics aren’t haters. It’s ridiculous! I’ve seen and heard more anti-Christian, anti-Jewish rhetoric the past couple weeks than I have for years. I guess the liberals hate God.


15 posted on 02/14/2023 3:52:43 PM PST by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: Olog-hai

And the other 30?


16 posted on 02/14/2023 3:58:38 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: JoJo354
“We must combat religion. That is the ABC of all materialism, and consequently of Marxism.”

— Lenin
It is their dogma.
17 posted on 02/14/2023 4:09:56 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

An earlier article post links the SPLC to the CIA. I think that is possible considering what we have learned from the Twitter Files, specifically government agencies using 3rd parties to engage with Twitter. The CIA is well known for using external partners and foreign countries to do their dirty work and get around our laws.


18 posted on 02/14/2023 4:11:53 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Olog-hai

SPLC is a hate group.


19 posted on 02/14/2023 4:12:34 PM PST by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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To: Olog-hai
As such that's a whole hearted 100% confident Beltway bureaucrat endorsement.

Sides are being drawn.

20 posted on 02/14/2023 4:16:11 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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