FILE – Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at the Turning Point Believers’ Summit, July 26, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday that his agency is cutting all ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over its criticism of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Patel said the era of the FBI and ADL working together is “over” and he slammed former FBI Director James Comey, who was recently indicted on one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice for allegedly lying under oath to Congress.
“James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans,” Patel said. “That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger.”
He added, “That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey’s policies and any partnership with the ADL.”
In a separate post to X, Patel declared the FBI “won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.”
It marks a major change in the FBI as Comey at one point described the agency as “in love” with the ADL. In a 2017 address to the group, Comey referenced his previous “love” remarks and declared, “Three years later, I can say, from the perspective of the FBI, we’re still in love with you.”
The ADL removed a Glossary of Extremism and Hate from its website this week after backlash from conservatives over Turning Point USA being listed as a right-wing extremist group. Kirk founded TPUSA with the goal of reaching young voters. He was shot and killed at a Utah college campus event earlier this month.
Among the critics was X owner Elon Musk.
“The FBI was taking their ‘hate group’ definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk [and] Turning Point, instead of his murderers,” Musk wrote on X.
The longtime critic of the ADL went on to call the organization a “hate group.”
“With over 1,000 entries written over many years, the ADL Glossary of Extremism has served as a source of high-level information on a wide range of topics for years. At the same time, an increasing number of entries in the Glossary were outdated,” the ADL wrote on X in response to criticism. “We also saw a number of entries intentionally misrepresented and misused.”
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