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Former Agent: FBI Taught Agents Pro-Lifers Are More Dangerous Than Islamic Terrorists
Federalist ^ | APRIL 05, 2024 | Tristan Justice

Posted on 04/06/2024 2:36:41 PM PDT by george76

The FBI trained personnel on countering extremism with material from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), according to former special agent turned whistleblower Steve Friend.

In an interview with the Tennessee Informer last month, Friend recalled his experience at the FBI Academy in 2014: “We were shown a video that was produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center.” The film, Friend said, “ranked people who oppose abortion, pro-life activists, as a greater threat than Islamists.”

“I don’t know if they still show that,” Friend added, “but that’s what we were shown.”

The FBI still relies on SPLC material a decade later, leading a pair of top Republican senators to demand the agency sever ties with the leftist hate group that routinely smears right-of-center associations as “hate groups.” SPLC’s false “hate group” designations led to a domestic terrorist attack in 2012 on the offices of a pro-family organization.

“The SPLC is known for disseminating its ‘hate group’ list, which contains at least 1,225 organizations, to Democrat allies in Congress, Big Tech, and woke corporations on a regular basis,” The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported last fall. “The activist hub recently aided the Biden regime’s quest to target concerned parents by sullying a dozen grassroots groups, including Moms For Liberty, as ‘anti-government extremist groups’ in its 2022 ‘hate and extremism’ report.”

The FBI also cited the SPLC to target traditional Catholics with counterterrorism resources, according to former agent Kyle Seraphin.

“The FBI should not lend credibility to an organization that labels traditional values as ‘hate,'” wrote Sens. Chuck Grassley and James Lankford last fall, adding “any use of SPLC data by the FBI” is “inappropriate and should be stopped immediately.”

More recently, the SPLC refused to answer Federalist inquiries about whether the SPLC would add Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Socialists of America to the list of “hate groups” following the far-left’s positive response to Hamas’s October terrorist attacks on Israel. The SPLC eventually responded to the attack, from which hostages are still being held and raped, by claiming Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children.

The SPLC also lists the first Amendment legal non-profit, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as a “designated hate group.” ADF has won cases at the Supreme Court 15 times, setting significant precedents in favor of Americans’ constitutional rights.

Friend was asked on the Tennessee Informer whether students at the FBI Academy pushed back at the use of a leftist hate group to train agents that pro-lifers are a worse threat than Islamic terrorists.

“There was some eye rolling,” Friend said, because his peers at the time were a group that “leans more conservative, more libertarian. “It’s probably very different now,” Friend added.

“When you’re at the Academy for the FBI, a lot of people are a little bit older,” Friend said. “Now the FBI is actually recruiting young people so they can indoctrinate them further.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; defundthegestapo; destroythefbi; dissent; doj; donutwatch; fbi; fbisedition; prolife; splc
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To: frnewsjunkie

Ready for an October surprise..?


21 posted on 04/06/2024 9:21:17 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Gaffer
BUT, we’ve had a decade and a half of NWO leftist or leftist leaning Presidents in office who facilitated the transformation of the FBI and other agencies to their ideologies - American conservatives are evil rebels.

George W. Bush was President in 2009. It's been 15 years. So my guess is that in the past 15 years, every recruit in the agency has been indoctrinated by the Democratic Party.

Now it's starting to happen in the military. Seems like when Joe Biden became President, anyone who's MAGA is not going to sign up for the military. You have some soldiers who are working toward retirement but they keep their mouths shut. Then they'll be replaced by new recruits who are already indoctrinated. Let's see what the military look like by 2030.

We are officially an one party state.

22 posted on 04/06/2024 9:32:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

GHWB 4 years
WJC 8 years
GWB 8 years
BHO 8 years
FJB 4 years

32 collective years of snivel-nosed NWO wonks, leftist leaning or just outright leftist.

AFAIC, GWB was one of the worst. Looking back, I am so sorely ashamed that I had to vote for him. He created two of the MOST freedom-stealing organizations this country has ever seen. TSA and DHS. And he never wasted or wastes an opportunity to work or speak against President Trump. Had 9/11 not come along, he’d have been out on his a$$ in 4 years.


23 posted on 04/06/2024 11:41:10 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
[GHWB 4 years
WJC 8 years
GWB 8 years]



The illusion of choice was always just that .... an illusion

"Time talks 2016" (election)



https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bush-clinton-cover.jpg
24 posted on 04/07/2024 12:07:16 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris
In 1978, Nixon gave a speech/ Q&A at the Oxford Union in England. It was a 5 minute speech and over an hour of Q&A with the students.

At one point he said something to the effect that the USA would someday probably have an alumnus from Oxford as president.

Clinton ran for governor in 1978 and was elected. I'm not sure what time of year Nixon's speech was, but he either had inside information - or could just recognize that Clinton had the political situation and power well in hand and Nixon figured he would just keep climbing. I would like to believe the later, but....

25 posted on 04/07/2024 12:16:47 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: george76

bttt


26 posted on 04/07/2024 12:33:35 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: 21twelve; JonPreston

After all I’ve seen, especially the last 16 years, it truly makes me wonder what I have actually seen, since about 1988.

Maybe since 1981..........

JonPreston has a pic of W and Barack and Mooch with an hilarious caption, on his homepage - perhaps he’ll share it here

I just saw the picture and the caption


27 posted on 04/07/2024 12:56:11 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: george76

It’s the FBI that are more dangerous than Islamic terrorists.
They are a Satanic cult.


28 posted on 04/07/2024 6:41:30 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: george76

They mean danger to Democrats getting elected?


29 posted on 04/22/2024 7:18:00 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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