Government Accountability Institute Vice President Eric Eggers reacted to the House Judiciary Committee’s “Manufacturing Hate, Part Two” hearing this week, describing what the Southern Poverty Law Center was forced to confront under oath.
Committee Chairman Jim Jordan opened by revealing that a superseding DOJ indictment raised the total the SPLC paid to “field sources” from $3 million to $4 million.
“They didn’t just pay them to foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting. They actually dated them,” Jordan said.
He detailed how an SPLC employee running the organization’s Intelligence Project was in a romantic relationship — and shared a joint bank account — with a KKK-affiliated source the group paid $1.2 million.
For Eggers, the spectacle reframed his own rough morning.
“I thought I was having a bad day. Like, I cut myself shaving, my kids are crying, and then all of a sudden I saw Brian Fair have to step up at this confessional hearing and testify and own this complete disaster of what they have done,” Eggers said.
He found the SPLC’s defense — that the money funded legitimate undercover work — beyond implausible.
The group’s posture, Eggers said, was “like an episode of Scooby-Doo. We would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for these silly feds who just happened to uncover and expose this.”
His verdict: “There are no good answers for the Southern Poverty Law Center. And yes, they just proved it on a national stage.”
Asked whether there would ever be real accountability, Eggers argued the hearing itself was the answer.
“This is what accountability looks like,” he said, pointing to the existing indictments and the broader posture of the current administration — the same forward-facing approach exposing fraud in welfare and SBA programs, now trained on the nonprofit networks that manufactured hate-group designations for political ends.
“Transparency and sunlight are the best disinfectants. This is what the Southern Poverty Law Center needs, sadly.”
And when lawmakers asked the SPLC to name a single IRGC or radical Islamist group on its hate map, Eggers noted, “they couldn’t list one. They couldn’t find one.”
His closing line landed the point: “No one should be against exposing hate groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center just chose to do the opposite and fund them. So, you know, maybe we should try something else.”
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