{"id":2177325,"date":"2024-02-15T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-its-time-to-end-the-fbi-adl-partnership\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:43:39","slug":"why-its-time-to-end-the-fbi-adl-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-its-time-to-end-the-fbi-adl-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to terminate FBI-ADL alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-its-time-to-end-the-fbi-adl-partnership%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2177325&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Dangerous Collaboration Between the Anti-Defamation League and\u200b the FBI<\/h2>\n<p>Most Americans recognize the \u200dAnti-Defamation League (ADL)\u2063 as a far-Left, dark-money behemoth with assets\u200d of nearly a quarter-billion dollars.\u200c The once-respected Federal Bureau of Investigation is now viewed as being similarly politicized. Overall support for\u2064 the agency has nosedived to only \u200c37% \u2063among the general public and a meager 17% among Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Yet few Americans realize how closely \u2062the ADL works with the FBI to advance their leadership\u2019s political interests. This\u200c is a dangerous \u2064collaboration\u2063 wherein the increasingly radical group provides ideologically \u2063driven guidance to people\u2064 with the guns. Right now, the FBI is pointing those\u2062 guns at \u2062the political enemies of the far-Left.<\/p>\n<h3>The ADL&#8217;s Political Agenda<\/h3>\n<p>The ADL\u2019s work covers the usual Left-wing cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bres:\u2062 fighting voting integrity measures, pushing for open \u200dborders policies and amnesty for illegal aliens, \u2064and vigorously defending the Black Lives Matter riots, to name a few. The group has now politically weaponized its charges of anti-Semitism, falsely smearing conservatives while excusing blatant \u200banti-Semitism among its \u200cpolitical allies. For example, the organization has groundlessly denounced Elon Musk, a powerful Libertarian voice,\u2064 as an anti-Semite in a bald-faced\u200b effort to \u200bdrain his social network, X, of advertising revenue. \u200cYet, when now-Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) \u200ccame to\u200c the defense of his uncle for anti-Semitic remarks he made in the 90s, the organization refused to \u2062condemn him.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Tobin of Jewish News Syndicate traces ADL\u2019s hard Left\u2062 turn to\u2062 its change in leadership from longtime leader Abe \u200cFoxman to \u2064Jonathan Greenblatt, a former staffer in the Clinton and Obama White House.\u2064 Tobin writes, \u201cGreenblatt has helped shift the ADL from its former stance as the nonpartisan gold standard for monitoring hate to \u2062being just another liberal activist group whose priority is helping the Democratic \u2062Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, \u2062The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Oversight \u2062Project, released an investigative report detailing an \u201cExtremist Sitrep\u201d email from the \u201cADL Law Enforcement\u201d account to The Washington State Fusion Center, a collective \u200cof various law enforcement entities spanning from local to the FBI. The \u200bemail advises law enforcement \u2063officers \u200dresponsible for investigating domestic terrorists to focus their resources on \u200bthe likes \u2062of Matt Walsh, Chris Rufo, and Libs of TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the FBI\u2019s infamous anti-Catholic targeting memo, the ADL \u2062email suggests that law enforcement agencies\u200d \u2014 people with guns and \u200bthe power to imprison and financially destroy enemies of the state \u2014 \u200cshould concentrate their efforts on non-violent citizens whose only \u201ccrime\u201d is to have exercised their First Amendment freedoms in support of political viewpoints contrary\u2062 to the authoritarian Left. The goal\u2063 here is clearly\u2062 to punish the \u201cthought criminals\u201d and force adherence to the dogmas of the state.<\/p>\n<h3>The ADL&#8217;s Influence on the FBI<\/h3>\n<p>The problem \u200dhere is that, according to former FBI agents, they are conditioned\u200c from the very beginning of\u200b their careers to be receptive \u2063to ADL propaganda. One of the first experiences\u200d of a \u200cnew agent is an ADL-sponsored trip\u2062 to the \u2063Holocaust\u2064 Museum in Washington, D.C. The ostensible purpose of the trip is to impress on new agents that they bear a tremendous responsibility that should never be abused.<\/p>\n<p>That lesson should be salubrious. But former agents tell \u2063me the trip\u2019s \u200creal purpose is to prepare agents to be receptive to the onslaught\u2063 of propaganda and rewards \u2063that the ADL will be sending their way throughout \u2063the coming years. At the very beginning of an agent\u2019s career, the FBI is sending \u2062the clear message that the ADL is a trusted partner.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064ADL and FBI partnership only grows from there. According to the ADL\u2019s website, \u201cWe educate annually an \u200destimated 15,000 law \u2063enforcement personnel from local, state and federal agencies.\u201d Moreover, \u200d\u201cin\u200d 2021 alone, the ADL \u2062Center \u200bon Extremism (COE) provided law enforcement with critical intelligence \u2064about\u2062 extremism over 1,300 times and tracked over 7,300 incidents of hate on \u2063our online, interactive H.E.A.T. map.\u201d The ADL \u2062even operates a school for\u200b executive-level law enforcement officials:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In 2003, ADL founded the \u2062Advanced Training School, which has provided education on extremism and terrorism for senior\u2063 law enforcement from more than 250 agencies across the U.S. This three-day course provides an \u2063examination of \u200dmajor types of extremist movements, case studies\u2063 of recent terrorist\u200d acts presented by law enforcement leaders with firsthand experience, and guidance on the critical\u2062 importance of protecting civil rights and liberties.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The very agency the Feds trust to \u200deducate them on matters of \u201cextremism\u201d is producing politically driven, far-Left reports on who \u200dcounts as an extremist. Much like the Southern Poverty Law \u2063Center, the ADL writes and applies the definition they wish government to enforce. They take \u200ccare to ensure that it predominately captures those opposed to \u200dtheir\u200b ideology, \u2062while excusing \u2064their political allies. Were these organizations to \u2064apply a neutral definition of hate or extremism, it \u2062would\u2062 undercut the leftist narrative that MAGA extremists and their ilk are the \u200bmost clear-and-present danger to the United States.<\/p>\n<h3>The ADL&#8217;s Influence on FBI Personnel<\/h3>\n<p>Beyond orientation, training, and propaganda, the\u2064 ADL \u200dprovides FBI personnel\u2063 with awards. Since 2010, the ADL has been\u200c handing out \u201cADL SHIELD \u200dAwards\u201d to FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors for investigative\u2064 and prosecutorial successes. It\u2019s a brilliantly subversive tactic. The awards cost the ADL next to nothing; in exchange organization\u2064 receives a false \u2064veneer of legitimacy and builds a list\u2064 of FBI executives and agents beholden to \u2063the ADL.<\/p>\n<p>Conditioning FBI personnel to be receptive to ADL political propaganda and then doling out rewards to FBI \u200cleaders is beyond unseemly. With this incentive structure in \u2063place, is there any reason to \u2064doubt that the FBI would be more inclined to take in and act on slanted ADL material?<\/p>\n<p>Small wonder that public confidence in the Bureau is at record lows. One\u2063 obvious remedial measure would be to end the partnership between the \u200bADL and the FBI. It\u2019s\u200c time to draw a bright line between dark, far-Left\u200c operations and the most powerful law enforcement entity in the\u200d country and make sure it is not crossed.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>Mike Howell is Director of the Oversight Project at The Heritage Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views \u200bexpressed in\u2062 this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily\u2063 Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does the close collaboration between the ADL and \u200dthe FBI raise questions about \u2062the impartiality and objectivity of \u2063the FBI \u2064in its investigations and operations?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Dangerous Partnership<\/p>\n<p>This close collaboration between the ADL\u2062 and the FBI is concerning for several reasons. First and\u200c foremost, it raises questions \u200cabout the impartiality \u2064and objectivity of the FBI in its investigations and operations. If the\u2064 agency\u2064 is heavily influenced by a politically \u200bmotivated organization like\u200b the ADL, can it truly be trusted to act in the \u2064best interests of all Americans?<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, this partnership allows the ADL to extend its reach and influence, using the resources\u2062 and authority of the FBI\u2063 to target\u200b individuals and groups that they deem to be their political enemies. By providing\u200b intelligence and guidance to law enforcement officers, the ADL is effectively \u200bweaponizing the FBI \u200bagainst those who hold differing political views.<\/p>\n<p>The ADL&#8217;s History of Bias<\/p>\n<p>It is\u2064 important to note that the ADL \u2063has a\u200d history of bias and selective outrage when it comes to allegations of hate \u2064and anti-Semitism. While they are\u200b quick to accuse conservatives and \u2064libertarians of anti-Semitism without evidence, they conveniently turn a blind eye to\u200b anti-Semitic remarks made by their \u2062political allies. This double standard undermines their credibility and calls into question their true motives.<\/p>\n<p>The ADL&#8217;s\u2062 shift to the\u200c left under\u200c the leadership of Jonathan Greenblatt is indicative of the organization&#8217;s transformation into a partisan activist group. Instead of focusing \u200bon their original mandate of monitoring hate and promoting \u2062tolerance, the ADL now prioritizes advancing the agenda of the Democratic\u200b Party. This political bias is not\u2063 only detrimental to their reputation but also compromises the integrity\u2062 and fairness of their\u2063 work.<\/p>\n<p>Consequences for Free \u200cExpression<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the\u2064 dangerous collaboration between the ADL and the FBI has serious \u2063implications for freedom\u200c of expression in the United States. By encouraging law enforcement to target non-violent citizens based on \u200btheir \u200dpolitical beliefs,\u2062 the ADL is effectively stifling dissent and punishing those who dare to deviate from the ideology of the far-left.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI, as an institution entrusted with upholding the Constitution and protecting the rights \u200bof all \u200cAmericans, should\u2062 remain neutral and independent from political influences. However,\u2062 its partnership with the ADL raises concerns about its ability to\u2064 do so. It is essential that the FBI maintain its impartiality and resist the pressure to become a tool for political\u200b agendas.<\/p>\n<p>Americans should be wary of \u200bthis dangerous collaboration between the ADL \u2063and the FBI. It threatens the principles that \u2062our nation was\u2062 founded upon and compromises the integrity of our law enforcement agencies. In order to preserve freedom of expression and ensure \u2062the fair and equal treatment of all citizens, it is imperative that the FBI reassess \u2062its partnership with the\u200d ADL \u200band return to \u200dits role as an unbiased protector of the rule of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans see the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a left-leaning, wealthy organization with assets of almost $250 million. Similarly, the once-revered FBI is now perceived as politically biased. Public support for the agency has plummeted to 37% overall and a mere 17% among Republicans. 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