The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cut ties with the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the agency’s director, Kash Patel, announced Friday.

In a social media post, Patel said the SPLC “long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine” and described how the organization has targeted Americans.

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

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