No. of Recommendations: 13
Or did they engage in behavior that promoted crime?The same charge is leveled at the FBI, every time they take down a nutter conspiracy, like the morons who plotted to kidnap and murder the Gov of Michigan.
Is the SPLC a law enforcement agency devoted to stopping crime?Every good citizen should report suspected criminal activity. How many years now, has law enforcement urged all of us "if you see something, say something"?
Southern Poverty Law Center says its informant program was not kept secret from law enforcement
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court on Tuesday that law enforcement agencies have long known that the nonprofit paid informants to report on the movements of hate groups, rejecting assertions by the Trump administration that the nonprofit steered money to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups without the knowledge of authorities.
The filings detail three instances in which the SPLC says information from its informant program was shared with law enforcement
“The Department of Justice is well aware that the SPLC provided helpful information, through the use of its confidential informants, to law enforcement,” the group said in its filing. “The Department of Justice also knows that these confidential informants helped law enforcement put violent extremists in jail.”apnews.com - Southern poverty law center criminal investigationSteve
