SPLC Indictment: Partisan Activists Were Running FBI Domestic Terror Program

The real Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) scandal isn’t just the indictment. The deeper scandal is that the FBI used a highly partisan activist group as an unelected, unvetted intelligence wing of the federal bureaucracy. For years, the bureau didn’t just consult the SPLC. It folded the group’s ideology into its threat assessments and other work products, then used those products to brand Americans as hateful or flag them as potential domestic violent extremists...

By treating the SPLC’s partisan analysis as a substitute for sworn evidence, the government laundered ideological narratives into official federal threat assessments...

The FBI’s Richmond memo, better known as the anti-Catholic memo, showed exactly what that pipeline looked like in practice...

The declassified Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) confirms that the Biden administration didn’t just tolerate outside ideological input from partisan organizations. It established a formal mechanism to solicit “non-governmental” analysis...

Thus the bureau stopped treating the SPLC as an outside source and started treating it like a partner...

The government should immediately declassify and release every work product that relied on SPLC sourcing. Beyond the SPLC, we need to know if other ideological partisan organizations also had outsized influence over federal threat assessments and work products. The public has a right to know how deep this pipeline ran...

SPLC Charged with Fraud, Money Laundering, Manufacturing Racism, by Elizabeth Weibel, Breitbart, 22 April 2026.

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