On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the 2014 membership directory of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a conservative political pressure group. It’s an unusual breach for the group, whose thrice-yearly meetings are shrouded in secrecy.
A leaked memo published by The New York Times in 2004 shows just how serious the CNP is about its privacy. “The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part in our programs, before of after a meeting,” the memo reportedly insisted.
CNP is an umbrella organization composed chiefly of leaders of the nation’s Religious Right groups. Membership is by invitation only, and its ranks are therefore packed with the cream of the conservative crop. Thanks to the SPLC, we now know that includes a number of the Religious Right’s most extreme adherents....
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/behind-closed-doors-secretive-far-right-umbrella-group-boasts-an-extreme
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