Edgar Steele Interview, (circa 2011), Apr 24, 2023

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/edgar-steele

Attorney and author Edgar J. Steele was practicing law in the hinterlands of north Idaho until 2000, when he was hired to defend the Aryan Nations against a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of a woman and her son who were terrorized by the group's security guards. During the trial, Steele portrayed himself publicly as a champion of free speech who was not necessarily a racist or anti-Semite. And, in fact, he had no public association with right-wing extremism until the trial and its aftermath.