The Southern Poverty Law Center Spy Network

In this video ChaptersTranscript Search transcriptChapter 1: Ten Years Inside the National Alliance0:000 seconds10 years. That’s how long the Southern Poverty Law Center paid an operative to work at the leadership level of a neo-Nazi organization called the0:077 secondsNational Alliance, a violent racist subculture with a documented history of homicide against suspected informants. 10 years is not a one-time experiment.0:1616 seconds10 years is a professional operation. In this episode of Game Theory Today, we cover a question that the federal indictment against the SPLC suggests.0:2424 secondsWho taught a social justice nonprofit how to run clandestine agent networks? Guys, it’s time for some game Theory.Chapter 2: What the Indictment Actually Says0:3333 secondsWelcome back to Game Theory Today.

I’m Eric Garland. On April 21st, 2026, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an 11count indictment0:4242 secondsagainst the Southern Poverty Law Center for wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money. This video isn’t about0:5151 secondsthe political implications of the SPLC’s operation, which are significant, but about something even bigger. The federal indictment alleges stunning facts, eight1:001 minuteinformants, operative code names, more than $3 million in payments between 2014 and 2023. Shell companies with1:081 minute, 8 secondsfabricated names routing donor money through cutout accounts and prepaid cards to sources inside violent extremist groups for their continued1:151 minute, 15 secondsoperation.

One source inside the neo-Nazi National Alliance for approximately 10 years was paid more than a million dollars. Another source1:241 minute, 24 secondswas a member of the leadership group that planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Another source1:301 minute, 30 secondswas the Imperial Wizard of the United Clans of America. These sources are alleged not to have merely been informing about these extremist1:381 minute, 38 secondsactivities, but to have planned, funded, and assisted them for years. The SPLC has already responded with public1:451 minute, 45 secondsstatements. They say the program saved lives and that information was shared at least sometimes with local and federal1:531 minute, 53 secondslaw enforcement.

Perhaps that will be their defense at court. In the meantime, I have a professional inquiry. Who2:002 minutestaught their nonprofit how to run agents? How the SPLC came by their intelligence trade craft, and that’s2:062 minutes, 6 secondswhat it is, spy tradecraft, matters to the American people as a whole, not just for the purpose of the current political discussion. What is alleged in this2:152 minutes, 15 secondsindictment crossed a bright line in our society and it needs to be discussed with the utmost rigor. I want to be clear about my credentials and why they2:232 minutes, 23 secondsmatter for this subject. I am an expert in human intelligence tradecraft. I’m a fellow of the Council of Competitive Intelligence and starting in 1997, I wasChapter 3: Why Survival Is the Analytical Puzzle2:322 minutes, 32 secondstrained as a human intelligence operative collecting information and ultimately running agent networks.

The deployment of human intelligence on US2:392 minutes, 39 secondssoil is absolutely fraught with legal and ethical challenges, and I have been managing them, studying them, and2:472 minutes, 47 secondscontributing to their use for almost 30 years. What I have learned about the SPLC’s operations is deeply concerning because it raises all manner of2:552 minutes, 55 secondsquestions, some broad, some deep. We’re talking about a prominent nonprofit with a social mission of saving Americans3:023 minutes, 2 secondsfrom harm, engaging in intelligence trade craft that can easily be harmful, illegal, or even a threat to national3:093 minutes, 9 secondssecurity. Under the US tax code, the SPLC was engaged in these activities at the public’s expense.

They owe the American people complete transparency3:183 minutes, 18 secondsabout these programs. The main question I have is who taught the SPLC’s agents and perhaps more importantly, who3:253 minutes, 25 secondstrained their handlers? This isn’t angels on the head of a pin. This question would be a matter of life and death with what they were doing. You do3:343 minutes, 34 secondsnot place an operative inside the leadership of the National Alliance for 10 years unless someone who knows human intelligence tradecraft is running the3:423 minutes, 42 secondsoperation because we’re talking about spying on people who have a documented history of murdering informants. If an agent weren’t well trained, their3:503 minutes, 50 secondsdiscovery could result in the worst of situations.

Spying on such individuals is not for hobbyists. So were they3:593 minutes, 59 secondshobbyists or were they something else? I have a professional question about which branch of intelligence tradecraft the SPLC was deploying in the field. Legal,4:074 minutes, 7 secondsethical, private sector, human, the kind people like me outside the government are able to practice on US soil involves4:154 minutes, 15 secondscertain activities. target identification, information collection under the operator’s true identity, liaison relationships, operational4:244 minutes, 24 secondssecurity, and debriefings. What the federal indictment against the SPLC talks about is different. In the grand jury indictment, we read aboutChapter 4: The Two Benches: Agents and Handlers4:324 minutes, 32 secondsfabricated identities, compartmented source handling, covert payment channels, budgets to participate in4:394 minutes, 39 secondspotentially illegal activities.

That is clandestine tradecraft, the kind that always requires a government agency for4:474 minutes, 47 secondslegal and security reasons. The distinction matters for everything that follows. That stuff is almost always done by a government because without a4:554 minutes, 55 secondslaw enforcement agency involved, you risk getting sued off the planet or a trip to prison. According to the SPLC5:035 minutes, 3 secondsitself, from its most recent public statements, the law enforcement agencies were only involved after the fact. We need to know more. According to the5:125 minutes, 12 secondsindictment, the SPLC agents were doing things that, in my professional opinion, would have needed cover identity construction, also known as legends, an5:205 minutes, 20 secondsability to use elicitation technique on their targets, operational security against the group’s own counter intelligence function, and training in5:285 minutes, 28 secondssurvival, evasion, resistance, and escape for the scenario where cover collapses.

and they’re detained by people whose recent operational history5:365 minutes, 36 secondsincludes homicide against suspected informants. This is not a weekend course. That is a training curriculum5:435 minutes, 43 secondsdeveloped over years delivered by people who have done the work themselves and whose pedagogy comes from a specific institutional lineage. And the handlers,5:515 minutes, 51 secondsthe case officers running the agents, they need to be well trained too. And they need a different curriculum.5:585 minutes, 58 secondstraining in source recruitment and cultivation, meeting and communication protocols, reporting discipline, source protection and compartmentation. And6:076 minutes, 7 secondsboth sets of personnel, agents and handlers would need to be under psychological observation to make sure that they don’t melt down from the6:146 minutes, 14 secondsstress.

Both curricula exist. Both are taught, but not by just anybody. Your local community college does not teach6:226 minutes, 22 secondsthis stuff. It’s a bit more specialized than that. In the United States, the teaching bench is small and the practitioners are identifiable. In most6:296 minutes, 29 secondscases, experts in human acquired such skills for use by the federal government and they face legal accountability of various types when they transfer thoseChapter 5: This Is an Industry: ADL, Black Cube, Project Veritas, News of the World6:376 minutes, 37 secondsskills to civilians. You can teach other people some of the skills you know, but there are serious limits. Generally, the6:456 minutes, 45 secondsgovernment does not look well on those who learn CIA and FBI tradecraft and then run around teaching commercially.6:516 minutes, 51 secondsIn the case of skills acquired through military or intelligence service, the non-disclosure agreements are significant.

In some cases, running to6:586 minutes, 58 secondsfederal, felony, criminal liability. So, it’s got to be people who fit that profile, which is a small number of people who themselves are under scrutiny7:067 minutes, 6 secondsby federal law enforcement for whatever they teach. Well, the other option would be non US nationals, which would be an7:147 minutes, 14 secondseven bigger deal. So, who was the SPLC employing for their operation? To put together a team of agents and handlers operating against domestic violent7:237 minutes, 23 secondsextremist groups, the professional background pool is narrow. Generally, you’d be looking at FBI undercover agents, especially operators who worked7:317 minutes, 31 secondsin the bureau’s domestic terrorism units in the 1990s and 2000s when white supremacy penetration was a federal priority.

former ATF, whose7:407 minutes, 40 secondsinstitutional history against these groups predates the FBI’s and produced some of the most experienced domestic undercover operators in American law enforcement. Less likely might be former7:497 minutes, 49 secondsstate and local police intelligence who had uh federal task force exposure. Even less likely would be former military7:567 minutes, 56 secondshuman operators, uh but those would have to be exceptionally careful to avoid court’s marshall. The last group would8:048 minutes, 4 secondsbe a small, mostly invisible private sector bench of credentialed operators who train corporate clients and investigative journalists. For the8:118 minutes, 11 secondsrecord, I’m in that last category.

And I know most of the people like me on a first-name basis. The people who could have possibly done the SPLC training in8:198 minutes, 19 secondsa legitimate way are identifiable. They have professional histories. Many of them would be members of credentialed professional bodies that keep records of8:288 minutes, 28 secondstheir membership. In my case, I’ve been part of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals since 1998 and was made a fellow in 2018. I’ve8:358 minutes, 35 secondswritten books and articles. I teach courses on professional tradecraftraft to my colleagues. I’m on the grid. Someone else reputable would be too.8:438 minutes, 43 secondsBack to the central question. Did SPLC have such a credentialed human professional on staff as a handler?

Did it retain one on a consulting basis?8:538 minutes, 53 secondsWho? Where were they from? The indictment does not say. The reporting has not said the answer is material to9:009 minutesthe scope of what was operating on American soil and under a 501c3 structure. That answer is obtainable9:089 minutes, 8 secondsfrom public records. This isn’t a government program and the answer isn’t classified. The SPLC should tell us how9:159 minutes, 15 secondsthey do business. The thing is there is a bigger industry of domestic espionage operators than you ever thought about.9:229 minutes, 22 secondsThis isn’t just an SPLC question. They aren’t alone. SPLC is one recently documented case inside a broader patternChapter 6: The Dzerzhinsky Inversion: Privatized Active Measures9:319 minutes, 31 secondsthat has been building on American and Western soil for decades.

And I want to walk through the other cases briefly so9:389 minutes, 38 secondsthat the scale is visible. Case number two is the Anti-Defamation League. This one matters because it’s the first9:469 minutes, 46 secondsdocumented full-scale case of the pattern we’re tracing on American soil, predating all the others by decades. In 1993, an FBI investigation uncovered a9:559 minutes, 55 secondsdomestic intelligence operation that the ADL had been running for more than 30 years. The principal operative was a man named Roy Bulock, an art dealer who had10:0310 minutes, 3 secondspreviously worked for the CIA in El Salvador and as a paid FBI informant.10:0810 minutes, 8 secondsBullock had been on the ADL payroll since the 1960s.

His files contained intelligence on approximately 12,000 individuals and 950 organizations.10:2110 minutes, 21 secondsArabAmerican activists, anti-aparttheid groups, the NAACP, the ACLU, Greenpeace, the United Farm Workers, and the10:3010 minutes, 30 secondsAmerican Indian Movement, and a sitting member of Congress, Representative Ron Delums of California, then chair of the House Armed Services Committee. Bulock’s10:3810 minutes, 38 secondsprimary source was a San Francisco Police Department intelligence unit inspector named Tom Gerard, who supplied confidential law enforcement records,10:4610 minutes, 46 secondsdriver’s license data, criminal records, political surveillance files through a network of sympathetic officers across multiple American police departments.10:5510 minutes, 55 secondsADL paid Bullock through a Los Angeles bank account held in a fabricated name, routed through a Beverly Hills attorney as the cutout.

Some of the resulting11:0511 minutes, 5 secondsintelligence product was sold to the apartheid government of South Africa for $16,000.11:1211 minutes, 12 secondsWhen the operation was exposed, the ADL’s defense in court was that Bulock and his colleagues should be recognized as journalists protected by the First11:2011 minutes, 20 secondsAmendment. The defense partially succeeded, limiting discovery enough to fold the case. The 1999 class action settlement closed the matter for11:2911 minutes, 29 seconds$175,000 in plaintiff legal fees, $25,000 to a community relations fund, and a permanent injunction against future spying, and no admission of wrongdoing.Chapter 7: The Ethical Standard: SCIP, Tradecraft, and the SPLC Indictment11:3911 minutes, 39 secondsThis is the template.

Tax exempt nonprofit cover, cutout payments laundering through a falseename account and an attorney. Corrupt police network11:4811 minutes, 48 secondsas source. Foreign government information transfers. Journalist defense to block discovery. 30 plus years of operation. Targets across the11:5711 minutes, 57 secondsAmerican political spectrum. Minimal legal consequences when exposed. Case three is Black Cube, an Israeli commercial intelligence firm founded in12:0612 minutes, 6 seconds2010 by former IDF military intelligence officers with an international advisory board that included two former heads of12:1312 minutes, 13 secondsMSAD. Harvey Weinstein retained Black Cube in 2016 on a referral from a former Israeli prime minister, Jeffrey12:2012 minutes, 20 secondsEpstein’s friend, Ahud Barak, for the explicit contractual purpose of suppressing sexual misconduct allegations.

One of their operatives12:2912 minutes, 29 secondsspent months posing as a woman’s rights advocate to elicit and secretly record the actress Rose McGawan. The intelligence product was routed through12:3712 minutes, 37 secondsthe law firm of David Boyce. Yes, the same David Boyce who is representing Epstein victims also used a commercial12:4512 minutes, 45 secondsintelligence firm staffed by former Mossad officers suggested by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates to run clandestine operations against US12:5312 minutes, 53 secondscitizens on US soil and benefited from attorney client privilege while doing it. Sit back and take a moment with thatChapter 8: Strategic Implication: The FARA Gap and the 501(c)(3) Question13:0013 minutesfact pattern.

These are supposedly lawyers, but this isn’t taking a deposition or doing discovery. This is a law firm acting as a front for13:0813 minutes, 8 secondsclandestine intelligence operations against US citizens on US soil.13:1313 minutes, 13 secondsConducted by operators trained in the trade craft of a foreign service.13:1713 minutes, 17 secondsRecommended by the friend of a convicted child trafficker and managed by the lawyer for the very victims of that guy’s trafficking. Moving on. Case four.13:2613 minutes, 26 secondsEric Prince, Richard Sedin, and Project Veritas. Sedin is a former British MI6 officer. Prince recruited him in 201613:3413 minutes, 34 secondsand brought him to the Prince family ranch in Wyoming to train project Veritoss operatives in surveillance and elicitation.

Seden ran a 2017 operation13:4413 minutes, 44 secondsto infiltrate a Michigan chapter of a major teachers union. He ran a separate 2018 operation to place an operative inside a Democratic congressional13:5213 minutes, 52 secondscampaign in Virginia. That is on there reporting from the New York Times. The trainer was a former foreign intelligence officer. The targets were14:0114 minutes, 1 secondAmerican civic institutions and American political campaigns. The regulatory framework did not cover it. Case five is14:0914 minutes, 9 secondsone Brits know about, but Americans don’t. Southern Investigations, a London private investigation firm run by a man14:1614 minutes, 16 secondsnamed Jonathan Ree.

Ree was on retainer to Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, £150,000 a year at peak. and he operated14:2414 minutes, 24 secondsa network of corrupt police officers, tax officials, and bank employees who supplied confidential information on tabloid targets. Targets includedChapter 9: Anti-American or Non-American?14:3314 minutes, 33 secondspoliticians, celebrities, the royal family, and in at least one documented case, the family of a murdered 13-year-old girl. In 1999, British14:4214 minutes, 42 secondsanti-corruption police secretly recorded Ree explaining to a journalist why their invoices had to stay vague. I’m going to14:4914 minutes, 49 secondsread you the quote. Ree says, “This is tiresome.

tiresome. We’re not going to put the numbers in there because what we are doing is illegal,14:5714 minutes, 57 secondsisn’t it? I don’t want people coming in and nicking us for a criminal offense.” The quiet part out loud on a live15:0415 minutes, 4 secondswiretap in 1999. Ree went to prison in 2000 for conspiring to plant cocaine on a woman to discredit her in a child15:1315 minutes, 13 secondscustody case. After prison, News of the World rehired him. Five [clears throat] cases, different political profiles.15:2115 minutes, 21 secondsSPLC seems lefty. ADL is a Jewish civil rights organization. Project Veritas appears right-wing. Black Cube are15:2915 minutes, 29 secondsforeign mercenaries. And southern investigations are technically part of tabloid journalism.

Different targets, extremist groups, sexual misconduct15:3715 minutes, 37 secondsaccusers, political campaigns, celebrities, the royal family. One structural pattern, private entities using intelligence service tradecraft15:4615 minutes, 46 secondsagainst civilians in the west inside a regulatory void that existing law was never designed to govern. We should15:5415 minutes, 54 secondscover the root of this kind of activity against citizens. Unfortunately, there’s a rich tradition. Felix Zerinski founded16:0216 minutes, 2 secondsthe Czecha, the Soviet Counter-Revolutionary Secret Police for Vladimir Lenin, a terrifying structure16:0916 minutes, 9 secondswhich eventually became the KGB and its successor agencies.

Modern Russian intelligence officers still call16:1616 minutes, 16 secondsthemselves checkists after the agency he founded. Russian spies still collect their pay on the 11th of each month in16:2416 minutes, 24 secondshonor of his birthday, which happens to be September 11th. In Russia, home of the Czechists, there is no distinction between home soil and foreign soil.16:3416 minutes, 34 secondsLiterally, the same officers conduct the same operations against all populations, including Russian citizens. They recognize nothing special about home16:4216 minutes, 42 secondssoil. If you’re alive, you’re a potential target for checklists. America was supposed to be completely different.16:5016 minutes, 50 secondsIn America, clandestine intelligence operations on our own soil have a defined lawful lane.

Federal government16:5616 minutes, 56 secondsstatutoily authorized, supervised under executive order, congressional intelligence committee oversight, judicial review where applicable,17:0417 minutes, 4 secondsinspector general accountability. That framework exists because the constitutional tradition understood that clandestine domestic operations against17:1317 minutes, 13 secondscitizens are dangerous enough to a republic that they must be constrained by layered accountability or not17:2017 minutes, 20 secondsconducted at all. Operations conducted outside that framework are not a regulatory edge case. They are hostile17:2617 minutes, 26 secondsintelligence activity by category. And the regimes that have historically run clandestine intelligence operations against their own populations as a17:3517 minutes, 35 secondsmatter of state practice are a specific list.

The Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, Cuba, that’s the category.17:4317 minutes, 43 secondsWhen a private American entity runs clandestine operations against Americans, it has placed itself inside a category American constitutional17:5117 minutes, 51 secondspractice was designed to exclude. These activities need a new term to correctly describe them active measures or in Russian activia.18:0218 minutes, 2 secondsThe fact that we borrowed the term from the Soviets and not the other way around tells the story. These were not operations designed to collect18:1018 minutes, 10 secondsinformation for decision makers, but to shape the political environment itself to discredit adversaries, construct18:1818 minutes, 18 secondsnarratives, manufacture political outcomes.

In the Soviet system, active measures were a state function,18:2518 minutes, 25 secondsdepartment A of the first chief directorate, accountable nominally to the pallet bureau, owned, at least on18:3218 minutes, 32 secondspaper, by the political institution that authorized them. What has emerged on American soil over the last three decades is something the Soviet doctrine18:4118 minutes, 41 secondscould not have predicted. A privatized active measures industry. commercial firms, nonprofits, tabloids, and18:5018 minutes, 50 secondspolitical operators running the same trade craft’s successors spent decades perfecting, but under private ownership, without state18:5918 minutes, 59 secondsauthorization, without pallet bureau oversight, without any oversight institution at all.

The trade craft19:0719 minutes, 7 secondstraveled through supposedly retired practitioners into a commercial market.19:1119 minutes, 11 secondsThe market absorbed it. The American regulatory framework never updated to match it. This is Benjamin Franklin’s19:1819 minutes, 18 secondscivic traditions colonized by Philix Gerjinski’s operational doctrine. The newsroom still looks like a newsroom.19:2519 minutes, 25 secondsThe civil rights nonprofit still looks like a civil rights nonprofit. The law firm still looks like a law firm, but the tradecraft inside is political19:3419 minutes, 34 secondspolice tradecraft rented commercially and deployed against other Americans.19:3919 minutes, 39 secondsThe analytical category is privatized active measures.

The category does not exist robustly in the Soviet doctrinal19:4719 minutes, 47 secondsliterature because the Soviets could not conceive of privatizing the function. It does not exist robustly in American law because American law was written when the function didn’t exist commercially.19:5919 minutes, 59 secondsThomas Rid in his 2020 book active measures traces the doctrinal lineage through the common turn and department A. Wang Huning, the Chinese political20:0720 minutes, 7 secondstheorist, in his 1991 book, America Against America, identifies the structural vulnerability. The American20:1520 minutes, 15 secondsmarket absorbs capacities that ought to be held as public responsibilities and the regulatory frameworks don’t catch20:2220 minutes, 22 secondsup.

Back to the forensic question, who taught them and why it matters ethically. The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals has a code of20:3020 minutes, 30 secondsethics. I’ll walk you through the parts that matter here. The code requires accurate self-identification when collecting information. No pretext20:3920 minutes, 39 secondsidentities, no fabricated personas. The code requires documented sourcing. If you cannot ultimately point to where your information came from, you cannot20:4720 minutes, 47 secondsuse it. The code forbids methods that create criminal or civil liability for collectors or for sources. It requires20:5520 minutes, 55 secondsan ethical posture toward the people we observe, including the people whose behavior we find objectionable.

Those standards exist because the profession21:0221 minutes, 2 secondsunderstood decades ago that human trade craft applied without ethical flame framework becomes corporate espionage,21:1021 minutes, 10 secondspolitical warfare, or worse. We learned our trade from the CIA and FBI. But we have no legal right to treat Americans21:1821 minutes, 18 secondslike we would the Syrian government. The standards that we codify, discuss, and enforce as a profession are what21:2521 minutes, 25 secondsdistinguish legitimate private sector intelligence work from the industry I’ve just described. In fact, if you get caught breaking our ethics, and several21:3321 minutes, 33 secondspeople have, all of my colleagues will know about it within 24 hours, and you will be barred from our guild for life.21:4121 minutes, 41 secondsNo exceptions.

We could not do what we do with rogues running around making us look like crooks or much worse like bad21:4921 minutes, 49 secondsguy spies. Now read the SPLC indictment through the ethical lens I’ve just described. One I’ve observed my entire adult life. Fabricated cover identities.22:0122 minutes, 1 secondOperatives placed in lethal risk environments without donor disclosure.22:0622 minutes, 6 secondsDonor funds used for a program the donors were never told existed. and under a taxexempt structure. That means the public subsidized it through22:1522 minutes, 15 secondsforegone tax revenue. Every one of those is a specific documented departure from the practices that legitimate private22:2422 minutes, 24 secondshuman requires of itself.

That makes the who taught them question specific and forensic. If a credentialed human22:3222 minutes, 32 secondsprofessional was on staff at SPLC’s intelligence project, their professional obligations were in direct conflict with22:4022 minutes, 40 secondsthe program they were running. And the profession has a legitimate interest in knowing who and how. If no such22:4822 minutes, 48 secondsprofessional was on staff, the operational security failure explains a great deal about why the indictment reads the way it does. And it means a22:5522 minutes, 55 secondstaxexempt organization put agents into lethal risk environments without prof professional protection using subsidized23:0323 minutes, 3 secondsdollars for almost 40 years.

Either answer is material. The people who could answer are identifiable from public23:1123 minutes, 11 secondsrecords, form 990 filings, intelligence project leadership history, board composition, retained consultancies.23:1823 minutes, 18 secondsThat work has not yet been done. The reporting has not asked the questions yet. The indictment does not answer it.23:2523 minutes, 25 secondsWe need to check in with the godfather of intelligence analysis before we close. Richard Huer in psychology of intelligence analysis talks about the23:3323 minutes, 33 secondsabsence of evidence as evidence. If a legitimate American human professional were publicly associated with SPLC’s23:4023 minutes, 40 secondsintelligence project, we would expect to see that person in conference programs, in peer citations, in published work on domestic extremism methodology.23:5023 minutes, 50 secondsThe absence of any such figure in the public record is itself a piece of analytical data.

It is consistent with23:5723 minutes, 57 secondstwo hypotheses. Either the handlers were federal or ex-federal operators whose public affiliations with the program were deliberately suppressed or there24:0624 minutes, 6 secondswas no credentialed handler and the program ran without professional oversight. Or a third possibility, a24:1324 minutes, 13 secondsmore disturbing one, the handlers are outside the American constitutional tradition entirely. non US nationals or24:2124 minutes, 21 secondsUS nationals trained in the tradecraftraft traditions of hostile services running operations the American framework never authorized because the24:2824 minutes, 28 secondsAmerican framework was designed to exclude exactly this kind of operation.24:3324 minutes, 33 secondsThe Foreign Agents Registration Act was written for a different world.

It is specifically for propaganda deployed at the specific request of a foreign24:4124 minutes, 41 secondsprinciple. It does not cover American doiciled entities that retain former foreign intelligence officers or their24:4824 minutes, 48 secondstraining lineage to apply their trade craft against American citizens on behalf of domestic principles. Farah24:5524 minutes, 55 secondsneeds there to be tasking from a foreign principle for federal and law enforcement to have jurisdiction. The25:0225 minutes, 2 secondstrade craft isn’t expressly outlawed if it’s employed for Americans against other Americans. That’s the regulatory25:0925 minutes, 9 secondsgap. The entire industry I’ve described operates inside that gap and that gap has been growing for 30 years while nobody was looking into it.

And then the25:1825 minutes, 18 seconds501c3 piece which is the specifically American angle under the tax code. The public subsidizes nonprofit operations25:2625 minutes, 26 secondsthrough foregone tax revenue. That subsidy comes with transparency obligations. An organization running a25:3325 minutes, 33 secondsprivately funded intelligence program using methods that fail the skip ethical standard inside a regulatory void that25:4125 minutes, 41 secondsFarah doesn’t cover at [snorts] public expense through the tax code owes the American people a full accounting of who ran it, who was trained for it, and25:4925 minutes, 49 secondsunder what ethical framework. That accounting has not been provided.

The indictment doesn’t force it. The congressional oversight hasn’t forced25:5725 minutes, 57 secondsit. But the American public has a legitimate claim on that information and it is ultimately obtainable. Democratic26:0426 minutes, 4 secondsaccountability requires the capacity to see institutions clearly. You cannot hold accountable what you cannot perceive. That’s the forensic question I26:1326 minutes, 13 secondswant to leave you with. The federal indictment told us what the Southern Poverty Law Center did. It did not tell us who taught them how. That is the26:2226 minutes, 22 secondsangle nobody else has handled. That is the angle that when it gets handled unlocks the rest of the story, the whole industry and the regulatory gap.

The26:3126 minutes, 31 secondsSPLC may have been running a private secret police operation under the cover of a racial equity nonprofit.26:3826 minutes, 38 secondsYou might agree that sounds anti-American.26:4126 minutes, 41 secondsWe should find out if it’s literally non-American. Keep thinking.Sync to video time