Prosecutors charge Heidi Beirich with financial crimes as part of case against the Southern Poverty Law Center

The justice department charged the SPLC in April over a now-ended program in which it paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist groups.

The government said the civil rights organization committed financial crimes by laundering money through bank accounts set up on behalf of fictitious entities to protect the identities of their informants. The government says the SPLC deceived donors into thinking they were combatting extremism, when they were actually supporting it.

The organization has strongly denied that accusation and says the charges are politically motivated. Experts have raised questions about the charges.

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    6 hours ago

    You’re assuming these people are smart. The thing is I’m pretty sure they are basically incapable of deviating from whatever plans or strategies they cooked up ages ago so now they just double down till it either fails or works. Pretty sure that’s what happened with Iran for example, it was probably an old plan that had been sitting around for decades that maybe could’ve worked then but was left shelved until it became worthless, kinda like the Schlieffen plan during WW1.

    Also I just realized your profile pic is the Neverwinter Nights logo.

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      3 hours ago

      Also I just realized your profile pic is the Neverwinter Nights logo.

      Yes it is, addicted to modding it. Do you play?

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        Used to a couple years ago, but my current poison is Rimworld and CK3 the mod AtE. Also it’s mostly not my cup of tea will usually choose to play Fallout or more modern CRPGs unless I’m already burnt out on those but still in a CRPG kick.