{"id":591139,"date":"2026-04-24T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591139"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:15:00","slug":"house-panel-orders-southern-poverty-law-center-to-turn-over-communications-with-biden-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591139","title":{"rendered":"House Panel Orders Southern Poverty Law Center To Turn Over Communications With Biden DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Panel Orders Southern Poverty Law Center To Turn Over Communications With Biden DOJ<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on April 23 gave the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) until April 30 to hand over documents regarding its relationship with the Biden\u2013Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI<\/strong>, as part of a federal prosecution of the civil rights group.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) during a hearing on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026. Madalina Kilroy\/The Epoch Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In a letter to Bryan Fair, SPLC interim president and chief executive, Jordan wrote that \u201cpublicly available documents revealed how the Justice Department partnered closely with the SPLC during the Biden-Harris Administration,<\/strong> including scheduling regular meetings, giving the SPLC early access to federal law-enforcement data, and allowing SPLC employees to train federal prosecutors.\u201d The letter was also posted to social media.<\/p>\n

The chairman\u2019s demand came two days after a grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an 11-count indictment<\/a> alleging the SPLC had committed wire fraud, made false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspired to conceal money laundering.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The indictment accuses the SPLC of funneling more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to no fewer than eight paid informants in violent racist organizations<\/strong>, including the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Movement, the National Socialist Party of America, the American Front, and the Aryan Nations-aligned Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club. Prosecutors said the group set up accounts under fictitious names, such as \u201cFox Photography\u201d and \u201cRare Books Warehouse\u201d among them, to hide where the money came from.<\/p>\n

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche alleged that the SPLC had used \u201cpaid operatives within extremist circles to incite and intensify racial tensions,\u201d arguing the civil rights organization \u201cfostered the very threats it claimed to fight.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s letter tells Fair that the committee is investigating whether the SPLC shaped federal policy during the Biden\u2013Harris years, highlighting a now-withdrawn 2023 FBI Richmond Field Office memorandum, dating back to when Christopher Wray led the bureau, that treated \u201cradical-traditionalist\u201d Catholics as given to violence, citing the SPLC as a source.<\/p>\n

The chairman requested that the organization provide by next Thursday all communications with any \u201cfield source,\u201d or informant, dating to Jan. 1, 2017. He also asked for communications referring to fictitious entities used to pay any \u201cfield source,\u201d also dating to 2017, as well as communications with the DOJ, FBI, and other federal agencies dating to Jan. 20, 2021.<\/p>\n

Fair said that the organization was \u201coutraged by the false accusations\u201d and will \u201cvigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work.\u201d He noted the informant program, since shut down, \u201csaved lives.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTaking on violent hate and extremist groups is among the most dangerous work there is, and we believe it is also among the most important work we do,\u201d Fair said.<\/p>\n

The SPLC disclosed the criminal probe ahead of the indictment, noting it faced a DOJ investigation over its use of \u201cpaid confidential informants\u201d to infiltrate so-called extremist organizations. The indictment covers almost a decade of alleged misconduct and claims that donors were never told the real reason behind the solicited funds.<\/p>\n

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Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 04\/24\/2026 – 08:15<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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