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“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” FBI Director Kash Patel told the Daily Signal in a Friday statement. “Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence.”

The SPLC created a so-called “hate map” which put conservatives and Christians together with Ku Klux Klan chapters.

“That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership,” Patel added.