FBI Director Kash Patel has been making some pretty serious changes at the embattled FBI. DEI is out, real police work is in, and the FBI is no longer to be making common cause with people who don’t like America very much. Case in point: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which once listed Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA in its “Glossary of Extremism and Hate.” 

Former FBI Director James Comey embarrassed himself slobbering all over the ADL. Now, according to a Fox News exclusive, Director Patel is showing them the door – and booting them through it.

FBI Director Kash Patel is cutting ties with the Anti-Defamation League that the bureau forged under its former boss James Comey.

“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 Digital.

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

It’s certainly not an overreaction to note that Comey slobbered all over the ADL, either.

On May 8, 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 speech which he called 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 his 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,” Comey said.

He concluded his speech with the words, “Love, the FBI.”

Ew. Just… ew.

That statement, by the way, the one about “fairness and equality,” would seem to exclude fairness and equality, say, for Charlie Kirk and the group he founded. TPUSA wasn’t an extremist group, and Charlie Kirk was no manner of right-wing nutjob; the thing he did most was to talk, not to people, but with them, in an open and free-wheeling exchange of ideas. There were times when Charlie, like anyone, was wrong on a certain issue. He was right most of the time, though, and he made people think – at least, the ones capable of thought.

And the ADL calls that “extremism?” Talking?