Kash Patel Severs FBI Ties With ADL Over Targeting of Conservatives

FBI Director Kash Patel has officially severed the bureau’s relationship with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), denouncing the organization's political agenda and its targeting of conservatives under the guise of counterterrorism.

“James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization,” Patel said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “That was not law enforcement it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger.”

Patel made it clear “This FBI formally rejects Comey’s policies and any partnership with the ADL.”

The move follows intense scrutiny of the ADL’s actions in recent months, particularly its decision to classify Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a mainstream conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk, under its “Center on Extremism.” The ADL’s own webpage linked TPUSA with “anti-Muslim bigots,” “alt-lite activists,” and even “white supremacists” all without substantial evidence.

That slander was made even more egregious by timing: it surfaced publicly just weeks after Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination during an event at Utah Valley University.

The backlash has been swift and overwhelming:

• Elon Musk called out the ADL for its role in shaping the FBI’s “hate group” priorities.
  
  “The FBI was taking their ‘hate group’ definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk [and] Turning Point, instead of his murderers,” Musk posted.
  He later labeled the ADL itself as a “hate group.”

• The ADL has since deleted its entire “Glossary of Extremism and Hate”, claiming many entries were “outdated” and “misrepresented” a quiet admission of political overreach.

• Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said the ADL must explain itself:

“Seems to me like if they don’t agree with you, they will label you a ‘hate group.’”

This is the same organization that James Comey once gushed over during a 2017 speech, calling his remarks a “love letter to the ADL.” Comey told the crowd. “Three years later I can say, from the perspective of the FBI, we’re still in love with you.”

That era is over. Patel’s hard reset is not just a rejection of political favoritism inside the FBI it’s a major shift toward restoring credibility in law enforcement.

Let’s be clear:

• The ADL once enjoyed bipartisan support for its work combatting genuine antisemitism.

• But it has morphed into a partisan watchdog that brands mainstream conservatives as extremists while giving a pass to leftist agitators.

• Their dangerous influence reached deep inside federal law enforcement under the Obama and Biden administrations and Americans are only now seeing the damage.

Even as the ADL issued a vague statement claiming “deep respect” for the FBI, its credibility continues to erode. The organization has traded its founding mission for left-wing political warfare. And under Director Patel, the FBI is no longer playing along.

This is more than just a bureaucratic divorce. It’s a statement that federal agencies should serve the American people not bend the knee to political activist groups that smear half the country.

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