The SPLC Questions Its Former Informant, But What Did It Believe When It Paid Him? Authored by David Manney via PJ Media , The Southern Poverty Law Center has discovered a problem with paid informants. It has financial motives, personal grudges, and reasons to tell their handlers what they want to hear.
An organization that pays for intelligence ought to understand those hazards before the invoices arrive. Now its lawyers are asking a federal court to scrutinize F-9, the organization's longest-contracted informant, who later began cooperating with investigators examining the SPLC.
Their October 28 motion alleges bias and selective disclosure and seeks preservation of his records and permission to subpoena them . The government's primary informant in this case was the Southern Poverty Law Center's longest-contracted informant, F-9.
His work in the program was almost certainly the most rewarding role F-9 ever had, both financially and professionally.