One of the suspects arrested in a domestic terrorist attack on a Georgia police training center works as an attorney for a prominent liberal group the FBI recently used as a source for claims Catholics are involved in domestic terrorism.
Now members of Congress want answers as to what the FBI is doing to combat anti-police violence by liberals, and why an apparent FBI partner was involved in the violence.
On March 5, 2023, Atlanta police arrested 35 liberal activists who carried out a violent attack on the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, reportedly hurling deadly projectiles such as rocks and bricks, fireworks and Molotov cocktail firebombs at police officers. (RELATED: Ongoing Antifa Protests Spur Emergency Declaration From Georgia Governor)
Twenty-three of them were charged with domestic terrorism under Georgia law. The FBI’s Atlanta Field Office is now determining if any federal laws were broken in the attack.
But according to Atlanta police, one of the individuals charged with domestic terrorism is an employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The SPLC is a notorious leftist group, known for decades for issuing reports claiming mainstream conservatives are domestic terrorist groups. Critics, including some on the left, allege the SPLC determines who is a “hate group” based on what they believe will bring in donations from liberal donors, with prominent conservatives topping the list.
The SPLC is so successful in tagging mainstream conservatives as deadly “hate groups” one of its supporters carried out an attempted mass shooting at the Washington, D.C. offices of the Family Research Council, a mainstream conservative Christian organization.
Despite the alleged terror attacks carried out by its followers, and now its employees, the SPLC is still a go-to source for media organizations and the FBI in painting conservatives and Christians as terrorist threats in need of monitoring.
“On January 23, 2023, the FBI’s Richmond Field Office published an analysis report that identified traditional Catholics as “violent extremists,” which cited the support of the SPLC. In 2021, DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis published a bulletin regarding a national threat report, citing an SPLC assessment on extremists,” the House Committee on Homeland Security reports. (RELATED: Tucker Carlson Shares Straight to the Point Message With ‘Professional Christian Leaders’)
After the arrest of a SPLC employee on domestic terrorism charges, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark E. Green, M.D., R-Tenn., Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Dan Bishop, R-N.C., issued a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding documents, communications and answers on their agencies’ response to the attack, and the involvement of a top SPLC employee.
“Upon providing the requested documents and information, please provide a briefing to Committee staff as soon as possible, but no later than May 4, 2023. We also request that the FBI notify the Committee as soon as it determines whether any participants in the violent attack at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center site committed any federal crimes,” the lawmakers write.