🚨BREAKING
The Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under "criminal investigation" for its paid informant program😲
Journalists like me have long expected SPLC might have cultivated informants, but this explicit confirmation is new.
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Bryan Fair, the SPLC's CEO, was kind enough to mention my congressional testimony in his video. He also mentioned my exclusive on @FBIDirectorKash separating the FBI from the SPLC last year.
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As a piece of damage control, Fair's announcement is very interesting.
He acknowledges that SPLC paid informants to monitor "extremely violent groups." He claims this program is over. He frames it in terms of the civil rights movement and the 1984 bombing of SPLC HQ.
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Is the investigation limited to decades-old activity?
When it comes to the SPLC, I have a motto: distrust but verify.
This program may help explain why the SPLC has $30M in offshore accounts, though...
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In 2020, I published my first book, all about the SPLC. I researched as much as I could, but I couldn't confirm the paid informants angle. There's so much more to uncover, and I'll be following this investigation closely.
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