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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has sharply rebuked Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accusing him of lying on a Fox News interview when he claimed the nonprofit does not share information from its extremist informant network with law‑enforcement, and demanding a public retraction. In a federal filing, the SPLC said the Department of Justice knows that its confidential informants have helped place violent extremists in jail and that Blanche’s “prejudicial” statement could taint a jury pool and jeopardize its right to a fair trial. The filing follows a grand‑jury indictment returned on April 21 that charges the SPLC with wire and bank fraud, money‑laundering conspiracy, and false statements to banks, allegations the organization disputes, asserting that its informant program has successfully prevented threats, stopped criminal activity and saved lives. The SPLC has asked the DOJ to correct Blanche’s remarks and to cease making further false or misleading statements about the case.

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"The deadly ambush of firefighters in Idaho on Sunday occurred on the anniversary of the burning of an infamous neo-Nazi compound by the local fire department for a training exercise in 2001.

Sunday’s killer ambushed firefighters after deliberately starting a blaze on Canfield Mountain near Coeur d’Alene, killing two of the smoke-eaters and leaving a third fighting for his life. The fiend was found dead near his gun.

Now internet sleuths have pointed out that the deadly incident occurred 24 years to the day after the deliberate burning of the former headquarters of the far-right Aryan Nations group in Hayden Lake, just 7 miles from Coeur d’Alene.

Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler was forced to sell the site in a bankruptcy sale after being ordered to pay a Native American woman $6.3 million in 2001 as part of a lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The hate group’s security guards had opened fire at the woman, Victoria Keenan, when she stopped outside the building with her son.

Conspiracy theorists and locals are now questioning whether Sunday’s incident may have been a revenge attack for the fire department’s destruction of the compound.

Eerie pictures taken during the two-day fire training exercise June 28 and 29, 2001, show the former headquarters of the neo-Nazi group going up in flames.

'I do not think it is a coincidence that on this date in 2001, firefighters in Coeur d’Alene burned down the Aryan Nation founder’s compound in a training exercise after he lost the property in a federal bankruptcy sale. The tragic current events are unfolding nearby,' a user wrote in a post on X on Sunday."

https://nypost.com/2025/06/30/us-news/chilling-coincidence-of-idaho-shooting-sends-internet-sleuths-into-overdrive/