Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, October 3, 2025

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the bureau would sever ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the second time in a week he has ended a partnership with a group that monitors right-wing extremism.

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But Patel accused the group of being a “partisan smear machine.”

“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine. Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership,” Patel wrote on X Friday.

“I made it clear that the FBI will never rely on politicized or agenda-driven intelligence from outside groups — and certainly not from the SPLC.”

The announcement came just two days after Patel similarly announced the FBI would cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a group that battles antisemitism and also monitors right-wing groups.

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Yes, the ADL is a ‘political front masquerading as a watchdog’

It’s hard to imagine a stranger twist to the MAGA’s “war on woke” than FBI Director Kash Patel’s announcement that the Bureau is cutting ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In a social media post, Patel wrote that the agency won’t partner with “political fronts masquerading as watchdogs”. The decision came after right-wing backlash over the ADL’s inclusion of Turning Point USA and its late leader, Charlie Kirk, in its “glossary of extremism”.

Not surprisingly, the organisation, with whom the FBI had collaborated on issues related to tracking anti-Semitism and other forms of extremism for well over half a century, quickly declared much of its “research” “outdated” and began scrubbing its websites of criticism of conservative figures and organisations.

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