Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, for wire fraud related to its informant program infiltrating extremist groups, drawing celebration from neo-Nazi accelerationist circles.
The American Futurist, a Telegram channel run by former members of the terrorist group Atomwaffen, called the indictment "a win for us," celebrating the elimination of what they termed "traitorous snakes" within their movement.
Blanche accused the SPLC of "manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred."
The 14-page indictment provides no evidence substantiating these claims. The FBI and DOJ declined to provide supporting documentation to Raw Story.
FBI informants have historically engaged in similar undercover activities since the 1960s, making the prosecution legally questionable.
The SPLC's interim CEO emphasized the organization's decades of successful civil rights litigation, including bankrupting the United Klans of America and forcing the Aryan Nations to surrender its compound.
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