FBI Director Kash Patel has formally cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that were enacted under former director James Comey, saying,  “The FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.”

Patel accused Comey of writing “love letters” to the ADL and of embedding FBI agents within the group that has recently been under fire from Republican lawmakers for listing Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization as an extremist group.

The ADL had described TPUSA as being tied to, “a range of right-wing extremists and has generated support from anti-Muslim bigots, alt-lite activists and some corners of the white supremacist alt-right.”

Fox News reports that the ADL last week removed its entire “Glossary of Extremism and Hate” from its website following the backlash.

Comey had referenced a 2014 speech that he called “a love letter to the ADL” and later his affirmed his and the FBI’s ongoing “love” for the ADL during a May 2017 speech where he addressed the ADL National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., stating, “Three years later I can say, from the perspective of the FBI, we’re still in love with you.”

Last week, Patel announced that, “That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey’s policies and any partnership with the ADL.”

Patel explained to Fox News Digital, “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.”

The FBI also announced that it is cutting its ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over the organization’s history of labeling conservative groups and individuals as extremists.

America First Legal, a conservative nonprofit law firm, has documented the close coordination between the SPLC and the former Biden Justice Department, including training and data access.

Both the ADL and SPLC are accused of flagging political targets for the Biden DOJ  and contributing to the weaponization of government against parents who spoke out against school boards or activists who peacefully protested near abortion clinics.