‘That Era Is OVER’: FBI Ends ADL Partnership After TPUSA ‘Extremist’ Designation
Shawn Fleetwood
The FBI is ending its partnership with the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday. The move comes after the organization got busted labeling Turning Point USA as an “extremist” group.
“James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger,” Patel said in a statement. “That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey’s policies and any partnership with the ADL.”
As John Lott Jr. recently noted in these pages, the ADL — a self-professed “anti-hate organization” — regularly mislabels left-wing violence as “right-wing,” while at the same time downplaying (or outright ignoring) real leftist violence.
Despite these reported issues, Comey had no problem heaping praise on the ADL and its partnership with the FBI under his tenure. According to Fox News, the recently indicted former director spoke at the ADL’s National Leadership Summit in May 2017, during which he “declared his and the FBI’s ‘love’ for the organization.”
“We are not only educating ourselves, we are working with the ADL to build bridges in the communities we serve,” Comey reportedly said. “For more than 100 years, you have advocated for fairness and equality … And for all of that, we are grateful. As a law enforcement and national security agency, yes. But also as Americans. As humans.”
The ADL has faced extensive backlash in recent days after the group got caught classifying TPUSA — the organization founded by recently assassinated conservative thought leader Charlie Kirk — as an “extremist” group. Per Fox News, “TPUSA’s backgrounder page on the ADL website falls under the ‘Center of Extremism’ tag and describes the conservative group as having ties to ‘a range of right-wing extremists and has generated support from anti-Muslim bigots, alt-lite activists and some corners of the white supremacist alt-right.'”
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