The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has positioned itself for years as a defender of justice.
In reality, it is a deeply biased organization—targeting people of faith, especially Christians and conservatives, branding them as threats to be silenced rather than citizens to be heard. Its influence has done real harm.
As a result of investigative efforts CatholicVote participated in with partners at Judicial Watch, we recently briefed officials at the Department of Justice about the biased and unreliable nature of information from The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The FBI, now under the leadership of Kash Patel, has severed all ties with SPLC, recognizing it as the leftist propaganda operation it has long been.
The beginning of the end for SPLC was its role as a key consultant in creating the now infamous FBI "Richmond memo."
In 2023, during the Biden administration, while the FBI was led by Christopher Wray, a whistleblower leaked an internal memo from the FBI office in Richmond, Virginia. This memo revealed Catholics were being looked at as potential violent extremists.
After the memo was leaked, CatholicVote and Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to learn more about the situation. That was on March 6 of 2023.
After dodging the request beyond an initial deadline, plus an extension, the FBI continued its refusal to send us any documents until we sued them and forced the issue.
In NOVEMBER of 2023, we finally received some documents. Though heavily redacted, those documents made it clear that the memo had caused more of a stir within the FBI than we had been led to believe.
This week, thanks to the dogged efforts of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and his own investigators, we now know even more about that scurrilous Richmond memo:
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