NEW: FBI Ends Comey-Era Partnership With Prominent Censorship Organization

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has ended its partnership with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday. The bureau’s partnership with the notorious censorship organization began under former FBI Director James Comey, who was recently indicted for lying to Congress and obstruction of justice.

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

“That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey’s policies and any partnership with the ADL,” he added.

In response, the ADL released a statement Wednesday saying it has “deep respect” for the FBI and all law enforcement agencies. “As we prepare to observe the holiest day of the year on the Jewish calendar, we have seen the statement from FBI Director Patel regarding the FBI’s relationship with ADL,” the organization posted on X,

“ADL has deep respect for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement officers at all levels across the country who work tirelessly every single day to protect all Americans regardless of their ancestry, religion, ethnicity, faith, political affiliation or any other point of difference.”

In 2017, Comey addressed the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. and declared his and the FBI’s “love” for the organization. He began by referencing a 2014 address that he described as a “love letter to the ADL,” adding, “Three years later I can say, from the perspective of the FBI, we’re still in love with you.”

“We are not only educating ourselves, we are working with the ADL to build bridges in the communities we serve,” Comey said in the 2017 speech. “For more than 100 years, you have advocated for fairness and equality… And for all of that, we are grateful. As a law enforcement and national security agency, yes. But also as Americans. As humans,” the director added.

James Comey wrote “love letters” to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them – a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans.

That era is OVER. This FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs. pic.twitter.com/R6IKpSTfuP

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 1, 2025

The ADL has long played a role in recommending censorship guidelines for big tech platforms, including Google. In the wake of the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, the organization’s “Glossary of Extremism and Hate” came under renewed scrutiny from Republicans and X owner Elon Musk, among others, due to its inclusion of Turning Point USA as an extremist organization.

The controversial glossary lists “it’s OK to be white,” the “OK” hand sign, several numbers, “white lives matter” and dozens of additional symbols or statements as “hateful” or “racist” while demanding sharp consequences for speech deemed “hateful.”

In response to the backlash, the organization announced earlier this week that it would be doing away with the project entirely. “With over 1,000 entries written over many years, the ADL Glossary of Extremism has served as a source of high-level information on a wide range of topics for years. At the same time, an increasing number of entries in the Glossary were outdated,”posted on X regarding the glossary. “We also saw a number of entries intentionally misrepresented and misused.”

The organization added that retiring the glossary would allow it “to explore new strategies and creative approaches to deliver our data and present our research more effectively.”