Update: This news is being contradicted on several sites, including Media Matters:

The right-wing narrative is also contradicted by an official statement from the FBI. In a statement to The Daily Caller, and FBI spokesperson said:

“Upon review, the Civil Rights program only provides links to resources within the federal government,” an FBI spokesman told The Daily Caller. “While we appreciate the tremendous support we receive from a variety of organizations, we have elected not to identify those groups on the civil rights page.”

The FBI’s statement makes sense, given that – as Bedard’s own report noted – a link to the Anti-Defamation League, which focuses primarily on combating anti-Semitism, was also scrubbed from the FBI’s “resources” page.”

Lila: However, as I scrolled through the different pages of the FBI website, I couldn’t find any links to either the SPLC or the ADL, so if indeed the FBI is still continuing to rely on them, they aren’t advertising the fact any more. They used to be mentioned on this page – Hate Crime – Overview.

They aren’t any more. Neither are they on this page on Hate Crimes.

They used to show up on the overview page, as this trace on Google indicates:

• published on: 2007/04/27, Last Modified on: 2010/09/24

• FBI — Overview
  http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/civilrights/hate_crimes/overviewThese groups include such organizations as the NAACP, the Southern Poverty
  Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, the National Asian Pacific American …

  Published on: 2010/08/30, Last Modified on: 2013/05/01

So maybe the liberal blogs are just trying to spin this to look better for them….

ORIGINAL POST

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which supposedly monitors anti-Semitism, but more often provokes it, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) – which does the same for other kinds of allegedly “hateful” beliefs – have both been scrubbed from the website of the FBI, after complaints from Christian groups to the Justice Department:

“The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled several Washington, D.C.-based family organizations as “hate groups” for favoring traditional marriage, has been dumped as a “resource” on the FBI‘s Hate Crime Web page, a significant rejection of the influential legal group.

The Web page scrubbing, which also included eliminating the Anti-Defamation League, was not announced and came in the last month after 15 family groups pressed Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey to stop endorsing a group — SPLC — that inspired a recent case of domestic terrorism at the Family Research Council.”