Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington D.C.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The Pentagon no longer uses the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a training resource on extremism, according to a new report.
The Daily Caller obtained internal Department of Defense (DOD) emails through a Freedom of Information Act request. The DOD’s Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute previously used the SPLC as a resource on “hate groups.”
According to an email from Brian J. Field, assistant U.S. attorney from the Civil Division, “all references to the SPLC have been removed from any current training” used by the DOD.
The SPLC lumps pro-life, pro-marriage, and Christian organizations in with neo-Nazis and the KKK as “hate groups.” Its “hate map” inspired a man to attempt a shooting rampage at the Family Research Council’s headquarters in 2012, the first incident of armed domestic terrorism in Washington, D.C.
The media have long cited the SPLC as a reliable source despite the equivalence it claims social conservatives and racists have.
The FBI used to link to the SPLC as a “resource” on hate crimes. It distanced
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