{"id":2213871,"date":"2024-04-05T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-agent-fbi-taught-agents-pro-lifers-are-more-dangerous-than-islamic-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T19:02:42","slug":"former-agent-fbi-taught-agents-pro-lifers-are-more-dangerous-than-islamic-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-agent-fbi-taught-agents-pro-lifers-are-more-dangerous-than-islamic-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FBI Agent Claims Agency Prioritized Pro-Life Activists Over Islamic Extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fformer-agent-fbi-taught-agents-pro-lifers-are-more-dangerous-than-islamic-terrorists%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=2213871&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--><p>Former FBI agent turned whistleblower Steve \u200bFriend revealed that the FBI used material from the Southern Poverty Law\u200b Center (SPLC) to\u2063 educate personnel on combating extremism. In an\u2064 interview,\u200b Friend\u200b recalled being shown a video at\u200b the FBI Academy\u2064 in 2014 that \u2063ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-remember-the-48th-annual-march-for-life\/\" title=\"Americans remember the 48th annual March for Life\">pro-life activists<\/a> as\u200c a \u200bgreater threat than Islamists. Republican senators have demanded the FBI sever ties with SPLC for biased practices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The FBI trained personnel on countering extremism with material from the far-left <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/southern-poverty-law-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)<\/a>, according to former special agent turned whistleblower Steve Friend. <\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vZPUMCqiAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview <\/a>with the Tennessee Informer last month, Friend recalled his experience at the FBI Academy in 2014: \u201cWe were shown a video that was produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center.\u201d The film, Friend said, \u201cranked people who oppose abortion, pro-life activists, as a greater threat than Islamists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if they still show that,\u201d Friend added, \u201cbut that\u2019s what we were shown.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The FBI still relies on SPLC material a decade later, leading a pair of top Republican senators to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/11\/grassley-lankford-demand-fbi-immediately-ditch-extremely-biased-splc-as-investigative-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demand <\/a>the agency sever ties with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teacher-ignores-law-to-indoctrinate-kids-with-lgbt-book-gets-brutal-notice-from-states-board-of-education\/\" title=\"Teacher defies law, faces consequences for promoting LGBT book to students.\">leftist hate group<\/a> that routinely smears right-of-center associations as \u201chate groups.\u201d SPLC\u2019s false \u201chate group\u201d designations led to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/15\/5-year-frc-shooting-anniversary-offers-study-presidential-reactions-hate-crimes\/\">a domestic terrorist attack in 2012<\/a> on the offices of a pro-family organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SPLC is known for disseminating its \u2018hate group\u2019 list, which contains at least 1,225 organizations, to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/06\/splc-uses-its-expertise-in-political-targeting-to-help-the-j6-committee\/\">Democrat allies in Congres<\/a>s, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/01\/30\/google-docs-prove-tech-giant-is-lying-about-its-leftwing-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big Tech<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/24\/gop-house-members-ask-jeff-bezos-to-explain-amazons-reliance-on-splc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">woke corporations<\/a> on a regular basis,\u201d The Federalist\u2019s Jordan Boyd <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/11\/grassley-lankford-demand-fbi-immediately-ditch-extremely-biased-splc-as-investigative-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> last fall. \u201cThe activist hub recently aided the Biden regime\u2019s quest to target concerned parents by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/13\/government-takes-cues-from-leftist-splc-to-bully-opponents-like-moms-for-liberty\/\">sullying <\/a>a dozen grassroots groups, including <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/moms-for-liberty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moms For Liberty<\/a>, as \u2018anti-government extremist groups\u2019 in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/year-hate-extremism-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 \u2018hate and extremism\u2019 report.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI also cited the SPLC to target traditional Catholics with counterterrorism resources, <a href=\"https:\/\/uncoverdc.com\/2023\/02\/08\/the-fbi-doubles-down-on-christians-and-white-supremacy-in-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according <\/a>to former agent Kyle Seraphin. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI should not lend credibility to an organization that labels traditional values as \u2018hate,&#8217;\u201d wrote Sens. Chuck Grassley and James Lankford last fall, adding \u201cany use of SPLC data by the FBI\u201d is \u201cinappropriate and should be stopped immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the SPLC <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/24\/splc-union-wont-call-out-pro-hamas-hate-groups-but-accuses-israel-of-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused <\/a>to answer Federalist inquiries about whether the SPLC would add Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Socialists of America to the list of \u201chate groups\u201d following the far-left\u2019s positive response to Hamas\u2019s October terrorist attacks on Israel. The SPLC eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/01\/splc-finally-responds-to-hamas-terrorism-with-stealth-edited-accusation-that-israel-targets-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded <\/a>to the attack, from which hostages are still being held and raped, by claiming Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. <\/p>\n<p>The SPLC also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/extremist-files\/group\/alliance-defending-freedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lists <\/a>the first Amendment legal non-profit, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as a \u201cdesignated hate group.\u201d ADF has won cases at the Supreme Court 15 times, setting significant precedents in favor of Americans\u2019 constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>Friend was asked on the Tennessee Informer whether students at the FBI Academy pushed back at the use of a leftist hate group to train agents that pro-lifers are a worse threat than Islamic terrorists. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was some eye rolling,\u201d Friend said, because his peers at the time were a group that \u201cleans more conservative, more libertarian. \u201cIt\u2019s probably very different now,\u201d Friend added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re at the Academy for the FBI, a lot of people are a little bit older,\u201d Friend said. \u201cNow the FBI is actually recruiting young people so they can indoctrinate them further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/19\/think-the-fbi-deserves-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-this-laundry-list-of-corruption-should-make-you-think-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Think The FBI Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt? This Laundry List Of Corruption Should Make You Think Again<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FBI agent turned whistleblower, Steve Friend, revealed that the FBI utilized material from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to educate personnel on combating extremism. 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