CBS News: SPLC Was Not Dismantling Hate Groups, It Was Manufacturing The Extremism It Purports To Oppose | Video | RealClearPolitics

CBS News: SPLC Was Not Dismantling Hate Groups, It Was Manufacturing The Extremism It Purports To Oppose | Video | RealClearPolitics - Tyler Stone

• The Southern Poverty Law Center has made its name battling extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. 
• It is now facing federal charges of fraud, accused of funneling millions into some of those very same hate groups.

Jan Crawford has more.

JAN CRAWFORD, CBS NEWS: 40 years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center bankrupted the Klan and later recovered millions from neo-Nazi groups with lawsuits representing victims of violence. But Tuesday, the tables turned. The Justice Department charged the organization with fraud for allegedly misleading donors and lying to financial institutions by paying members of violent extremist groups millions of dollars to act as informants...