THE WAR ON WATCHDOGS: Inside the Federal Indictment of the SPLC and the Battle for the American Soul

1. The Charlottesville Warning: Before the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, the SPLC provided the FBI’s Mobile, Alabama field office with a detailed dossier naming specific individuals likely to incite violence.

2. The DOJ Briefings: Earlier this year, before the indictment was handed down, SPLC officials held two separate meetings with federal prosecutors where they disclosed the full scope of their informant program.

3. The Criminal Conviction: In at least one high-profile case in Ohio, intelligence gathered by an SPLC informant led directly to the federal conviction of a violent extremist.

“If we were running a criminal scheme to secretly fund terrorists,” an SPLC attorney argued in court, “why would we voluntarily hand the FBI the keys to put those same terrorists in prison? The DOJ’s logic collapses under the weight of its own records.”