Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Kash Patel is working to ensure that his agency is no longer connected to outside left-wing groups.

Patel announced Friday that the FBI has officially ended its relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) based in Montgomery.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” Patel said. “Their so-called “hate map” has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.”

SPLC was focal point of controversy last year as well after it was revealed that the organization is doxing at least fourteen ‘Not the Bee’ writers in an expected ‘hit piece’ as part of a ‘Data Lab investigation.’

“In April, during our Anti-Christian Bias Panel, I made it clear that the FBI will never rely on politicized or agenda-driven intelligence from outside groups — and certainly not from the SPLC,” Patel continued.

“Under this FBI, all ties with the SPLC have officially been terminated.”

The non-profit is also being investigated by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Committee.

“The SPLC has weaponized its designation of ‘hate group’ to target conservative persons, organizations, and non-profits who hold opposing viewpoints or policy positions,” Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said. “In 2019, a federal judge concluded that the SPLC’s ‘hate group’ label does not ‘depend upon objective data or evidence’ and described the designation as ‘an entirely subjective inquiry.’ Despite this subjective slant, SPLC’s labels have been used in the private sector as a basis for decisions to exclude partnerships with certain groups.”

The announcement from the FBI terminating their connection to SPLC comes just days after Patel said they also ended their relationship with Anti-Defamation League for its left-wing bias.

“James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger,” Patel told Fox News Digital.

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