{"id":32351,"date":"2025-10-02T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32351"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:02:45","slug":"patel-cuts-ties-comeys-fbi-made-with-adl-as-organization-faces-backlash-for-tpusa-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32351","title":{"rendered":"Patel cuts ties Comey\u2019s FBI made with ADL as organization faces backlash for TPUSA criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

FBI Director Kash Patel is cutting ties with the Anti-Defamation League that the bureau forged under its former boss James Comey.
\n\u2018James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing \u2018love letters\u2019 to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger,\u2019 Patel told Fox News Digital.
\n\u2018That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey\u2019s policies and any partnership with the ADL,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

On May 8, 2017, Comey addressed the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. and declared his and the FBI\u2019s \u2018love\u2019 for the organization. He began by referencing a 2014 speech which he called a \u2018love letter to the ADL,\u2019 adding, \u2018Three years later I can say, from the perspective of the FBI, we\u2019re still in love with you.\u2019
\n\u2018We are not only educating ourselves, we are working with the ADL to build bridges in the communities we serve,\u2019 Comey said in his 2017 speech.\u00a0
\n\u2018For more than 100 years, you have advocated for fairness and equality\u2026 And for all of that, we are grateful. As a law enforcement and national security agency, yes. But also as Americans. As humans,\u2019 Comey said.
\nHe concluded his speech with the words, \u2018Love, the FBI.\u2019<\/p>\n

The ADL has recently faced backlash from Elon Musk and Republican lawmakers for listing Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Charlie Kirk\u2019s organization, as an extremist group. As a result, the group removed its entire \u2018Glossary of Extremism and Hate\u2019 on Tuesday.
\n\u2018With 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,\u2019 the ADL wrote on X regarding the glossary. \u2018We also saw a number of entries intentionally misrepresented and misused.\u2019
\nThe organization also said that retiring the glossary would allow it \u2018to explore new strategies and creative approaches to deliver our data and present our research more effectively.\u2019
\n\u2018It will keep us focused on ensuring we do what we do best: fighting antisemitism and hate in the most impactful ways possible.\u2019<\/p>\n

The outrage comes nearly three weeks after Kirk was assassinated during an event at Utah Valley University.
\n\u2018The FBI was taking their \u2018hate group\u2019 definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk [and] Turning Point, instead of his murderers,\u2019 Musk wrote in a post on X. In a separate post, Musk referred to the ADL as \u2018a hate group.\u2019
\nRep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said the organization needed to explain its categorization of TPUSA.
\n\u2018Seems to me like if they don\u2019t agree with you, they will label you a \u2018hate group,\u2019\u2019 Luna wrote on X.
\nTPUSA\u2019s backgrounder page on the ADL website falls under the \u2018Center of Extremism\u2019 tag and describes the conservative group as having ties to \u2018a range of right-wing extremists and has generated support from anti-Muslim bigots, alt-lite activists and some corners of the white supremacist alt-right.\u2019
\nFox News Digital contacted the ADL for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
\nFox News Digital\u2019s Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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