My Nazi lover: Inside the SPLCs anti-hate racket

As if the Southern Poverty Law Center wasn’t already looking like a menace instead of a respected civil-rights outfit, now comes evidence that one of its top execs was sending donor cash to the white supremacist she was shacked up with.To be fair, it’s long been obvious that the SPLC is a racket exploiting liberals (especially in the media) desperate for right-wing threats to condemn; the nonprofit raked in billions over the decades to support its (shoddy) research, including a “hate map” and database on supposed hate groups.Now it stands charged with funneling funds to members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other outfits it was raising cash to fight.Its officers insist the payments were to “informants,” but the feds now say the “Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project” was “in a romantic relationship” with a member of the National Alliance — a white supremacist outfit — to whom she helped funnel $1.2 million in donor money.Ick.They allegedly even had a joint bank account to cover living expenses, so she profited from the payouts.Per the SPLC’s own defense of its “informant” payoffs, the racist Romeo would raise money, induct new recruits and conduct “extremist activities” for the National Alliance, while copying documents to feed to his honeybunch handler, who then published SPLC reports on the inner workings of the hate group.When the Alliance went on a leak hunt, the SPLC paid another informant to take the heat: How many of the haters weren’t on its payroll? Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Never miss a story.Yes, actual law-enforcement outfits sometimes use paid informants to help build criminal cases, but the SPLC is no such thing, and “sleeping with the enemy” is pretty much as compromised as any crusader can get.

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