FBI Director Kash Patel said Wednesday he had cut the FBI’s ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a leading Jewish civil rights group that has partnered with law enforcement agencies for decades to educate authorities on extremism and antisemitism.

The Washington Post couldn’t immediately verify what had motivated the move. But Patel’s decision comes as the ADL has been the target of conservative ire in recent days.

Patel said the ADL had served as a “political front” and spied on Americans. Patel also denounced the FBI’s previous involvement with the ADL,which was supported by former FBI director James B. Comey.

“James B. Comey wrote ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them - a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans. That era is OVER,” Patel wrote on soci

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