The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, announces a break with the anti -Semitism surveillance body in the midst of indignation by the description of Charlie Kirk.
The main agency for the application of the law in the United States has reduced ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), accusing the Jewish Defense Organization and the anti-Semitism danger of spying on conservatives.
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, made the announcement on Wednesday after prominent conservative influencers, including Elon Musk, would be overwhelmed by the inclusion of the ADL of the right -handed activist Charlie Kirk in his “Glossary of Extremism and Hate.”
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In a brief statement, Patel highlighted the ADL associations with former FBI director James Comey, a strident critic of President Donald Trump, who was accused last week for charges of obstruction and lies to the United States Congress.
Patel said Comey had written “love letters” to ADL and integrated agents within the group, which he accused of executing “shameful Ophs spying on Americans.”
“This FBI will not be associated with political fronts of surveillance,” Patel said in a social networks publication.
Patel did not elaborate or provide evidence of his statements.
In a 2014 speech before the ADL National Leadership Summit, Comey said the FBI had made the application of the law and training of the defense group society associated with the staff and associated themselves to write a “hate crime training manual.”
Comey described the ADL's experience in the investigation of “essential” hate crimes and its “opening and insightful” training.
“If this sounds a bit like a love letter to the ADL, it is, and rightly,” he said.
Although Patel did not mention Kirk in his statement, his announcement occurred just one day after the ADL eliminated more than 1,000 tickets about the alleged extremism of its website in the middle of the right -wing indignation due to references to the deceased activist.
The ADL said it made the decision since many of the terms were outdated and several entries had been “intentionally and misused.”
In an entry from it from Kirk and its Turning Point USA youth organization (TPUSA), the ADL said that Kirk promoted “Christian nationalism” and “numerous conspiracy theories about electoral fraud and COVID-19 and has demonized the transgender community.”
The entrance also said that Tpusa attracted the racists, that their representatives had made “intolerant comments” about the minority groups and the LGBTQ community, and that the White Nationalists had attended their events, “although the group says that it rejects the white supremacist ideology.”
Kirk himself strongly criticized ADL while he was alive, once describing him as a “hate group that puts a religious mask to justify the hatred of the enemies of the left.”
In a statement that responded to Patel's comments on Wednesday, the ADL said it had a “deep respect” for the FBI and all agents of the law that work to protect Americans, regardless of their ancestry, religion, ethnicity, faith and political affiliation.
“In the light of a wave of unprecedented anti -Semitism, we remain more committed than ever with our central purpose of protecting the Jewish people,” he said.
