Tim Pool details the DOJ's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for fraud and allegedly funding white supremacist groups via a covert network funneling over $3 million through fictitious entities. He argues this operation targeted him with false accusations of Russian coordination, which the SPLC later retracted, while claiming Alex Jones correctly identified the Charlottesville events as a false flag. Ultimately, Pool suggests these actions reveal a deep state psychological operation by Democratic elites and NGOs like USAID designed to manufacture narratives and destroy dissenting media voices. [Automatically generated summary]
The DOJ has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for.
Fraud, and there's a lot more than just that.
According to the indictment, they were actually helping fund some of these big, quote unquote, white supremacist gatherings, including Unite the Right.
For those unfamiliar, this is about nine years ago now.
This is a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where several individuals were organizing a rally to stop these statues from being torn down, and a counter protest was formed.
It resulted in a man in a car ramming into a crowd of leftist protesters, killing one woman.
Donald Trump said of the event that there were very fine people on both sides, and I am not talking about the neo Nazis and the white supremacists because they should be condemned totally.
From that point on, the very fine people hoax was hatched.
Now, as it turns out, according to the indictment, the SPLC had been providing money to one of the organizers of the event, seemingly, some would suggest, to stage the whole thing.
The indictment is actually pretty dang crazy.
In it, It mentions that a sole proprietorship was created for the purpose of funneling money to white supremacists called the Center Investigative Agency, or CIA.
I want to start with this story from the Daily Wire.
Then, of course, I want to show you the actual indictment and go through this.
And I would argue we are looking at a surface layer of a deep state conspiracy.
Even USA Today, inadvertently perhaps insinuating the SPLC itself is a federal agency.
Something bigger is going on behind the scenes that we can't see.
More and more, these conspiracies are being uncovered.
Now, of course, the left is responding saying they were just paying informants.
The only problem is the indictment alleges these individuals that were getting money were then committing federal crimes, in which case, that's not just paying an informant, that's funding federal crimes.
I want to jump in and I want to get personal with you.
Because I believe that there is an ongoing conspiracy, maybe isn't the right word, but let me just say that there are plans in place for individuals.
And this, seemingly as one of them, they are moving chess pieces across the board and manipulating us in ways we can't even see.
And I'm going to get personal with you guys based on this story and my involvement with what the SPLC was trying to smear me with.
They were forced to retract.
And what this likely means now that it's being exposed that they were.
At least according to the indictment, funding what they claimed to try and stop.
I believe there's more to the picture than meets the eye.
We will start, of course, with the Daily Wire.
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Daily Wire says.
Lefty anti-hate group paid white supremacists to plan infamous Charlottesville rally indictment.
The informant was part of a group chat created for those who were planning the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
An informant who was paid by the SPLC helped white supremacists plan the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
In an indictment made public on Tuesday, the SPLC stands accused of secretly using donor money to pay leaders within racist groups.
One of the SPLC's informants was a member of the leadership team. of a white supremacist group that planned the Unite the Right rally.
The informant who was identified in the indictment as Field Source 37, or F37, was paid more than $270,000 by the SPLC between 2015 and 2023.
The informant was part of a group chat created for those who were planning the rally.
F37 made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.
The 2017 Unite the Right rally included a mix of alt right groups, neo Nazis, Klansmen, etc.
Turn deadly.
Joe Biden pointed to the rally as the main reason for his decision to jump into the 2020 presidential election, saying, In that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike I had ever seen in my lifetime.
Well, here's a statement you may have seen from the DOJ, but let's go through the actual indictment because what's in it is more damning than what's being reported.
I believe that many of these reports aren't actually getting to the crux of the allegations.
We can see this.
Let me pull up some of these tweets here.
USA Today posted The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted for paying sources to infiltrate hate groups, a tactic federal agencies have used for decades, as if to imply the SPLC is a federal agency.
Because why would a nonprofit that provides legal services and advocates against hate be engaging in a tactic of federal agencies?
I think what we're seeing is panic and desperation.
I think we saw it with the shuttering of USAID.
Here's the indictment.
It reads, the Southern Poverty Law Center's stated mission included dismantling of white supremacy and confronting hate across the country.
However, unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nation, National Alliance, the SPLC's paid informants engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that they were denouncing the same groups on its website.
To put it simply, the liberals are going to argue that it's just informants.
Except for the fact that the money was being used by individuals to commit federal crimes, according to the indictment, and the individuals getting paid were helping organize the events.
They say the SPLC had a field source who was a member of the leadership group of Unite the Right, which we read.
They say, according to its website, the SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people.
To carry out this mission, they raised donations, et cetera, et cetera.
Let's get to the actual accusations.
The paid informants network, known as the F's.
Starting in the 80s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of informants who were either associated with violent extremist groups, such as the Klan, or had infiltrated these groups.
These informants were referred to by some individuals as field sources.
Between 2014 and 23, the SPLC paid their informants in a clandestine manner.
Doing so hid the fact that while the SPLC received donation money under the auspices, That the funds would be used to dismantle these groups.
The donation money was instead being used in part by the SPLC to pay leaders and others within these same violent groups.
That money was then used for the benefit of the individuals as well as their groups.
In this timeframe, they funneled more than $3 million.
Two examples were one of the individuals who organized, helped organize Unite the Right.
F9 was affiliated with the neo Nazi group, the National Alliance, and served as an informant for the SPLC for 20 years.
Activities included fundraising.
The SPLC secretly paid more than a million dollars to this person.
In 2014, F9 entered the headquarters of a violent extremist group and stole 25 boxes of documents.
Coordinated payment for the copying of materials of the high level SPLC employee, who acknowledged the documents had been stolen.
The original stolen materials were returned to the violent extremist group in a second illegal entry.
Thereafter, the high level SPLC employee utilized the documents in part as the basis for a story published on their Hate Watch website and authored by the employee.
Another informant.
Was blamed for the theft and paid approximately $6,000 by the SPLC to falsely take responsibility.
F unknown was the imperial wizard of the United Clans of America.
In an article published in November 22, 23, of 2013, the SPLC described the group as a millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat.
F 27 was reported as an officer in the National Socialist Movement and the Aryan Nations.
F 42 is a former chairman of the National Alliance.
F 30 is a former member of the National Alliance.
Apparently, part of the Nationalist Socialist Party of America, they call the Nazi Party, F 43, was reported national president of American Front.
The thing you need to understand these are not random members informing on the groups, they are the organizers and leaders of these groups that are making these things happen.
And while it's fair to point out, they even mentioned in the indictment that they were sharing this information with the SPLC, which they would then call out.
They were funding leaders who were organizing these very things, at least according to the indictment.
You want to say, in addition to directly paying its leaders and others associated with the same violent extremist groups, they sought donations to dismantle those very groups.
They created several fictitious entities, they claim.
To secretly funnel donated money to the Fs, individuals of the SPLC, including a person who would become the chief financial officer and a person who would become the director of intelligence project, among others, opened a series of bank accounts in the name of various fictitious entities, including but not limited to the following the Center Investigative Agency, CIA.
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I started to experience these accusations for some reason around the time I had been very much supporting Bernie Sanders, which felt very strange to me.
The narrative of the Bernie bro was popping up where they said these are men's rights activists and these frat bros that want Bernie and they're bad.
The whole thing was weird.
And as a big Bernie supporter, I was getting these weird attacks and accused of being racist and other weird things, despite the fact I was not making content related to that stuff.
I was doing travel docs.
The SPLC in 2018 wrote an article claiming that I was alt right and had been a speaker at a Holocaust deniers conference in Iran, which is insane and made no sense.
Their source was an archive of a website that no longer existed that listed me as a speaker at an event in Iran for which I'd never been there.
Ultimately, my point is this I always wondered why it was that despite not being heavily involved in politics, in 2018, I started getting more involved, of course, with Sweden and things like this.
I had been accused of being associated with right wing, more importantly, Russia.
The 2018 article claimed that Russia was.
Let me just go down and show you this vindication.
They say, accordingly, this is what SPLC published.
We decided not to repost this in reference to the article.
We extend a sincere apology to those who believe it had been falsely described Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Tim Poole, Rania Kalik, Brian Becker, and disclaim any intention to suggest they are white supremacists, fascists, anti Semites, that they hold such views.
Or that they are engaged in a conspiracy with the Russian government to promote such views or otherwise.
Notice anything interesting about what the SPLC had accused me of back in 2018.
So let me tell you.
Donald Trump went on stage at a rally and he said, Did you see what happened last night in Sweden?
Nothing had happened last night in Sweden, but a documentary was aired on Fox News about crime in Sweden.
Doing what I always do, somewhat apolitically, I said, Hey, I travel around covering the news.
I'll go to Sweden.
I instantly got messages from journalists at Vice and other places telling me not to do it.
Which I found very creepy and weird.
I said, Guys, I do travel journalism.
And they said, Trump is lying.
I'm like, Yeah, probably.
And they're like, So don't go.
And I said, I'm going to prove him wrong.
And they told me, Donate the money you've received for the trip to a charity for Muslims.
And I said, I can't do that.
That would be fraud.
I'm going to go and just do some travel docs in Sweden.
And so I did.
Something interesting happened.
While I was in Sweden, I had been inundated with emails.
From individuals claiming to represent RT, Russia Today, asking for licensing rights to the footage, to which I just hit delete and ignored them.
I'm not taking money from Russia intentionally.
No, it won't happen.
And the crazy thing is, I don't even know or care about Russia at this point.
I'm just not interested in foreign media like Telesur or Russia Today or whatever.
I get more emails.
They won't leave me the F alone.
Then I get emails from people that I know who said, Hey, I have friends that work at RT that are trying to license your video footage from Sweden.
And my response was, it's fair use.
They don't need to license it.
Stop emailing me.
Weird.
Around this time, the SPLC had tried to falsely malign me, Max Blumenthal, and others as having been working for or coordinated by Russia, which is the dumbest and weirdest thing ever because I don't know anything about Russia, particularly at this time.
I had been getting emails from Russia Today trying to buy footage that they did not need to buy.
My footage is fair use.
You can just take the clips and use it.
You don't need to give me money for that.
And I didn't want it, so I never took any.
In fact, I went to an unconference event at DEF CON, the hacker convention, and I told this story and said the weirdest thing.
They kept trying to offer me money for this footage.
And I said, no, I deleted it.
I refused to engage.
I don't know why they were doing it.
People clapped for me.
An unconference, it's not like I was a speaker, it's an unconference meaning anybody can offer to come and speak.
And I was talking about the weird psychological operations.
Well, as you all now know, two years ago, Merrick Garland made the accusation that my company was inadvertently paid by Russia.
This is coordinated, intentional psychological operations.
Hands down, period.
I accept nothing else.
Why the SPLC in 2018 tried to insinuate I was being coordinated by the Russian government?
Why these people would not leave me the F alone and kept trying to send me money for footage they did not need to send?
I'm not stupid.
When I get an email saying we will pay you for footage we don't need to pay for, I said delete F off.
That's nonsense.
So then, this story comes out right before the election saying that I was receiving money from the Russian government, which is a lie because I would never accept money from a foreign source.
It was a small, immaterial licensing agreement for a Tennessee based company.
A month later, the DOJ dropped the investigation, told my lawyers there was no case, and they were out.
Several months later, after Trump had won, this is last year.
Lauren Chen came out and said that they had formally ended any investigation.
It was fake.
It was coordinated.
It was an operation.
Now, because I can tell you that Merrick Garland, the evil, degenerate piece of garbage, who maligned my name with a fake investigation they never had any intention of digging into, with no evidence, and pushed that to this day, I can say for sure we never took money from Russia.
Our company is still operating.
I'm still rich.
We still make money.
This licensing agreement was largely immaterial to the operations of the company.
Weird, isn't it?
I would never accept this money.
Why is it there have been so many attempts to try and associate me with Russia?
I don't have anything to do with Russia.
I don't care for Russia.
It's weird.
I have Ukrainian friends.
I covered the beginning of the protests in Ukraine for Vice to millions of views.
I was largely on the side of those protesting that government.
What is this?
And why was the SPLC the first to try to do it?
They had to apologize for it.
I tell you this because I view it as when they make a fake organization called the CIA.
It's all one big happy family tree.
Now, it doesn't mean it's governmental.
It could be extra governmental.
Obviously, Merrick Garland lied.
The individuals they're investigating over this RT scheme, no one knows who they are, if they even exist.
And it's funny because I had two law firms on this and they said, Tim, it's impossible to investigate this.
They're not going to go to Hungary or Ukraine or Russia to try and find two people no one's ever heard of.
They can't.
And I asked, why then even announce the investigation?
Indeed.
Indeed, why?
Here's some more details.
I can only tell you what I've heard because I don't actually know much about what happened.
But according to people involved, Tenet received a massive burst of subscribers just before the indictment was dropped.
The theory, of course, is that the feds organized the whole thing.
It was an op, it was manipulation.
And that the reason the channel was given fake followers was because it had none.
It was a startup out of Tennessee with limited to no followers that bought a license.
A show, by the way, that still exists, still makes money.
In fact, this channel indeed.
YouTube deleted all of those videos without reason, without evidence, despite the fact that these videos are not overtly political.
The whole thing's a manipulation, everything is fake and gay, and I am absolutely sick of it.
I don't know why now the Trump admin is making these moves to just secure this indictment.
I don't know that it will actually result in anything meaningful.
I am just sick of the manipulation.
I am sick of the insults and the harassment.
And it is harassment.
And it doesn't appear to be anything other than coordinated.
Again, I would make the presumption that there are leftist activists, NGOs, as well as individuals in government that work together towards a shared end.
It doesn't mean that the government itself is doing these things, it means that bad actors do bad things often, that there are political agendas that they've been working towards.
This is what the SPLC has been doing.
I stress this.
The reporting is that they planned Unite the Right.
They made it happen.
They paid the guy who went and helped it happen.
Then they used that to malign people.
You know something else?
I wonder.
I've got to dig into my archives.
I got emails from people associated with the groups that were organizing Unite the Right asking me to come and live stream it, and I refused.
Not interested.
I should look into who those people were.
I wonder if there's some association.
The weirdest thing to me about all of this, in the story that I tell you as it relates to everything, I was not a deeply political guy.
I was largely just a travel journalist.
If anything, it feels like their intention was to put me on the chessboard intentionally, to create what I'm doing.
It feels like I am just a pawn that they have dragged across the board because the things they have done have created my emotional state and driven me to the point where I am today.
Maybe that's just paranoia.
What I can say is the SPLC tried maligning me as Russian back in 2018 and a white supremacist.
I have no idea why, because I wasn't producing political commentary or a podcast.
I was just covering things.
So, why make those accusations before I'm even involved in politics?
Merrick Garland did the same thing, creating a persona, shaping the narrative around me and my company.
And this is part of what I had seen years ago before I was even in politics.
Now, maybe it's incidental, possibly, but when you learn that they were organizing these events, it doesn't seem incidental.
It very well may be.
So maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I will tell you this it's not unwarranted.
When the government maligns you and comes out on TV and makes up a fake story about you that results in death threats, yeah, that was intentional, and I know it was fake.
They dropped the investigation a month later after the election.
I'm begging my lawyers, get them to drop the files and the proof.
Let's expose this.
And they said, we can't.
They've given up.
There was never a story to begin with.
And it was funny because I was asked, Tim, how often does the attorney general go on television to issue a press release of this manner?
And I'm like, they don't.
They never do.
Indeed.
So I wonder.
Now, of course, Todd Blanch just did with the SPLC because all of it is political.
There's some kind of civil war happening within the elites, I guess.
And I think that powerful Democrat groups through USAID and other NGOs have been orchestrating and pulling strings for some time.
I don't know if they were trying to rope me in.
They could have just banned me off YouTube, so I really don't understand what's going on.
All I can say is you can see the surface level of it.
And there's something happening.
We just don't know what or why.
And I'm just.
Sick of it.
I'm sick of whatever it is game they're playing.
I'm sick of everybody lying.
Even now, you look at some of these prominent personalities on social media changing their opinions on a dime and it feels coordinated.
It doesn't mean it is.
It could just be an emergent phenomenon.
Dominoes fall over and people react.
But I'm sick of it.
Everything is fake, some kind of manipulation.
Nothing appears to be emergent or organic.
There are powerful people pulling strings and making things happen.
Right now, I don't know who wants what or why.
All I know is you can see the glimmers, the things that they do like this.
And we know it.
People have been posting that in Virginia, they cheated the election.
There's weird data, mail in ballot numbers, perhaps.
I don't know.
What I can say is there's two worldviews.
It is seemingly random, competing interests fighting all the time.
Of course, there's coordination, but for the most part, it's just special interest groups fighting other special interest groups.
The other view is that everything is manipulated and controlled.
And it's easy to understand why people believe one or the other.
I tend to lean towards it's a bit more cadic than you realize because I've been to the White House, I've met the president, I've met a lot of these people, and I can tell you, man, they sure don't appear to be coordinated in anything.
But I can also understand why people believe that things are coordinated because of things like this.
Now, again, I think the reality is it's a mix of the two.
Powerful interest groups coordinate where they can.
Sometimes they lose power, sometimes they gain power.
And the Democratic establishment has its liminal, subliminal, superliminal, et cetera.
Meaning there's going to be weird SPLC garbage like this where they create fake organizations.
Take a look.
Let me dig into this.
Wiring money to white supremacists who are organizing these events.
The Center Investigative Agency.
Absolutely insane stuff.
Count 11.
Beginning in or about 2014 and continuing through at least 2023 of August, they knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with persons known and unknown to the grand jury to commit concealment of money laundering.
It's very interesting.
So, who are the people right now that are exposing the SPLC having done this?
I got to give a shout out to my boy Alex Jones.
Austin Allred says credit where it's due.
Alex Jones, Charlottesville was a false flag run by SPLC operatives who hired actors to pose as Nazis.
Quote So they advertise and they have a Unite the Right, Don't Be Racist rally.
And of course, these guys with torches come and you look them up and most of them are actors.
You can even look up their names.
They're Democratic Party operatives.
They've been caught painting swastikas on black people's places and burning crosses and they always get caught.
This is why they eliminated Alex Jones and InfoWars.
This is why The Onion is buying Infowars.
They don't need to.
I mean, let's just break the Infowars thing down.
The Onion is taking the domain Infowars and they're going to turn it into a parody website.
They could just do that for free.
They don't need to acquire his company to do it.
The story of Alex Jones is that he defamed the Sandy Hook families in 2012, I believe it was.
They sued him.
My understanding, and I could be wrong, but my understanding was that Alex Jones was issued a summary, a default judgment, meaning they claimed he did not comply with requests of the court.
What Alex told me years ago was that when his lawyers responded to the suit, they said the documents provided were not complete.
When they responded with, that's all they had, they were called liars.
So the judge ruled in default with no trial.
The trial that we ended up getting was a damages hearing to see how much he'd have to pay.
And they were requesting the GDP of France.
Not an exaggeration.
Now, The Onion is set to acquire it, and it's going to turn it to a parody site.
I mean, this is crazy stuff.
Alex Jones has been right about a lot of stuff.
He's been wrong about a lot.
He sounds crazy half the time, you know.
The crazy thing is, I think in terms of the media narrative control in the machine, he is aberrant.
That is, there was a post.
There's a meme that leftists have made, and it said right wingers making up things to get angry about, and it's Alex Jones shooting lightning bolts with frogs all around him.
The only issue is Alex Jones was correct about the reports on Atrazine.
He had a show that was saying things the corporate media narrative would not allow.
And then through YouTube and other social media platforms, he started to get more and more prominent.
And boy, did this piss off the machine, and they destroyed him.
The crazy thing is.
It seems he was correct about Charlottesville.
He's probably correct about a lot of this stuff.
And how much more?
He had called out Epstein early on.
Seems he was right about that.
Conspiracy theorists seem to have been correct about most things.
I think the machine state is breaking apart and we're starting to see through the cracks.
I think Cash and Trump are fighting this, obviously.
The dismantling of USA shut down their illicit funding scheme, it would appear.
But in Virginia, they're setting up a stronghold.
Guys, I think it's actually plain for everyone to see what's going on.
In Virginia, 51% just voted to eliminate the voice of 49.
And that's terrifying.
I think it's pretty obvious that something is going on between powerful elites against each other.
I think it's obvious that they target people like Alex Jones to psychological operations and manipulations.
I'm not saying Trump's good or perfect or that his worldview is going to be better, but these people are overt evil.
That they would sacrifice and destroy the lives of innocent people.
Which makes me wonder could there not be an easier way to go about these things?
Not when they're evil, when they want to do things that they know people would oppose, then their only option will be manipulation.
Well, I can't tell you exactly what's going on.
I can only tell you that liberals are, of course, framing this as the white supremacist Trump administration stopping those who would fight white supremacy.
I think what we're dealing with on social media are largely bots, influence operations, and psychological manipulation.
I think the SPLC was playing that role.
And let me just wrap it up one last time by saying, as I get personal, when I see the SPLC doing this to me, the weirdest thing imaginable, I want to stress, this is eight years ago.
And I'm accused of being organized by the Russians.
For no reason, completely uninvolved.
I have no idea what's going on with Russia.
I'm making videos about video games and movies, and this happens.
And I'm just sitting there being like, huh?
Like, what's going on?
Why are they saying that?
That's just the weirdest thing imaginable.
And here we are today Merrick Garland and his campaign against me, Benny, Dave, et cetera.
It's not an accident.
They've been trying to do this.
It makes it seem like it's all coordinated.
I have no other way to explain it.
It's not a coincidence.
You tell me.
I could be wrong.
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We'll talk about this and a lot more tonight on Timcast IRL.
Thanks for hanging out.
We'll see you all then.
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