Jerry Boykin wasn’t thrilled to see the Southern Poverty Law Center working with Amazon or Twitter, but he’s far more alarmed about the left-leaning group’s partnership with the FBI.
“I think the FBI is making a terrible mistake by doing this, given the track record of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” said Mr. Boykin, a retired lieutenant general and former deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, who now serves as executive vice president of the Family Research Council.
“That is more proof of a deep state,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, it delegitimizes so much of what the FBI does.”
Mr. Boykin added that he thought the FBI had dropped the SPLC as a resource, and certainly that was the widespread assumption among political conservatives, until a few days ago.
The FBI-SPLC link reignited alarm after Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida Republican, fired off a letter last week asking FBIcongressional liaison Jill C. Tyson about an email in which he said the bureau acknowledged a working relationship with the SPLC.
“In email correspondence, the FBI has admitted to working with the SPLC,” said Mr. Gaetz in the July 23 letter obtained by Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “This is surprising and worrisome, as the SPLC is known to use its platform in order to denigrate and disparage certain groups by labeling them ‘hate groups.’”
FBI spokeswoman Jacqueline Maguire neither confirmed nor denied the SPLC partnership, saying in a statement that the bureau has for years “engaged with various organizations” and “we welcome information from these organizations on any possible violations of civil rights, hate crimes, or other potential crimes or threats.”
“We do, however, evaluate our relationships with these groups as necessary to ensure the appropriateness of any interaction,” she said.
A Justice Department spokesperson told Fox that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had “directed the FBI to reevaluate their relationships with groups like this to ensure the FBI does not partner with any group that discriminates.”
More at the Washington Times
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Its nothing but another Soros slime machine
As if using Hillary, Steele and Fusion GPS hasn’t caused the FBI enough problems, now they want to rely of left wing racist hate group SPLC?
WHAT THE HELL?!?
One of TV’s big franchises, Law and Order, picked this year to start a new series, FBI……
It will just be a liberal hour in Prime Time to try to rehabilitate the agency.
No thanks.
@Nanny G: Practically everything the networks produce, including their “news” offerings, is a vehicle to promote the liberal agenda. Hillary is going to be on “Madame Secretary”, a program invented to conflate an imaginary Secretary of State that saves the world every week with one that was an utter failure and corrupt. Apparently, Hillary is going to lend a hand in the rehabilitation of her own image. I’d love to see the outtakes! I wonder who gets to change her diapers?
Back in the 1960’s and 70’s there was a TV series The FBI with EFREM ZIMBELUS Jr had a Daughter STEPHANIE ZIMBELUS