The Nature of the ADL

In January 1993, the San Francisco Police Department reported that it had recently raided the Northern California headquarters of the ADL based upon information provided by the FBI.

The SFPD discovered that the organization had been keeping intelligence files on more than 600 civic organizations and 10,000 individuals, overwhelmingly of a liberal orientation, with the SFPD inspector estimating that75% of the material had been illegally obtained, much of it bysecret payments to police officials.

https://www.unz.com/runz/elon-musk-and-the-true-history-of-the-adl/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/12/adl-spies/

This was merely the tip of the iceberg in what clearly amounted to thelargest domestic spying operation by any private organization in American history, and according to some sources,ADL agents across the country had targeted over 1,000 political, religious, labor, and civil rights organizations, with the New York headquarters of the ADLmaintaining active dossiers on more than a million Americans.”

This is shocking information that perhaps only a handful of Americans know anything about.The recent dust-up with Elon Muskhas put the ADL’s methods under a microscope particularly their alleged role in censoring people on the Internet.

So, my question to you is this: What is the ADL? Is it really a civil rights organization that “combats extremism and antisemitism” or is it something else altogether?