Anonymous Denies List of KKK Members after Politicians Respond

[uppityperson]

Source: Newsweek

Updated | Online hacking group Anonymous has denied responsibility for the recent publication of a list that claims some U.S. politicians belong to the Ku Klux Klan.

Last week, Anonymous said it would soon release the identities of about 1,000 members of the white supremacist organization. Anonymous is expected to release the details on Thursday, the day of the global protest movement known as the Million Mask March, in which demonstrators around the world will march in a protest against corrupt governments and corporations.

Anonymous denies it has any connection to the list of names, which was published Saturday on the website Pastebin. Most of the politicians included on the list—four Republican senators, four Democratic mayors and a Republican mayor—have denied the claims.

There is no evidence immediately apparent that confirms the details posted on the website. The posting user is identified as "Amped Attacks."...(more at link)...

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/politicians-respond-names-alleged-kkk-list-389874

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Snopes also says the story is "false/undetermined".

[L. Coyote]

1. "The anons at the helm of this initiative vouch ONLY for the dox list that will be released ...."

Operation KKK ?@Operation_KKK
3 hours ago

The anons at the helm of this initiative vouch ONLY for the dox list that will be released from this Twitter account on November 5 2015.

Operation KKK Retweeted
Anonymous ?@YourAnonNews 3 hours ago
The pastebin links sent to us regarding #OpKKK were sent to us by Anonymous individuals. The actual release for Operation KKK will be 5 Nov.

Operation KKK Retweeted
Anonymous ?@YourAnonNews 2 hours ago
First instance of the pastebin links being mentioned on twitter: https://twitter.com/YourAntiSec/status/660872796571115520 … <- this is not the official November 5th release

[Scuba]

2. Red herring, meant to cast asparagus on the real disclosure.

[uppityperson]

4. How is saying "no, it wasn't us" a red herring?

I am confused by your post, would you please clarify?

[tblue37]

10. I think the point of that post was that today's list, which contains names of people who can

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probably prove they are NOT members of the KKK is the red herring meant to undermine belief in the real list when it is published.

[uppityperson]

11. Got it, thanks for clarifying and I agree.

190 recs for "Several Republican Senators outed as members of the KKK by Anonymous"
10 for this thread.

It is well known that initial reports get the most coverage and are believed the longest, even if retracted of shown to be false.

It smel

[wordpix]

18. I was just at that story & people following it know Anon has dissed this outing

however, repukes like Cornyn still make me

[uppityperson]

19. Yup, they do.

[Scuba]

17. Yep, thanks.

[840high]

3. People here was so happy

to jump on everyone.

[Kingofalldems]

5. I smell Rove.

[Kalidurga]

6. Me too.

[uppityperson]

8. Discredit the real list by sending out a fake one first?

It sounds like something he'd orchestrate.

[Kingofalldems]

9. Exactly.

[rockfordfile]

25. bingo

[NuclearDem]

29. I smell gullibility and ass-covering.

It sounds a lot better to say you were caught by an orchestrated right wing conspiracy, rather than you simply fell for the first unsubstantiated nonsense posted by an anonymous person on the Internet that fed your confirmation bias.

[Kingofalldems]

31. I fell for nothing.

What the hell are you talking about?

I got your 'confirmation bias'.

[Demonaut]

7. slip a fake one out before the real one is released..smells like Rove Turd blossom

[bravenak]

12. I knew it was bull.

When the repug names came out I eye rolled and thought here we go. Anybody can make up shit on the internet. Then the dem names came out. More eyerolls.

I just cannot imaging grown congressmen or politicians dancing around in wizard robes these days.
Too silly. They don't even need robes to get the job done.

[EL34x4]

15. Exactly.

No politician of any influence is going to join the Ku Klux Klan in 2015.

This isn't 1924, or 1964. The KKK as it exists today is a gauche organization of toothless hillbillies and federal informants who wield no real power in the south except as fodder for sensational documentaries and Hollywood bad guys.

Powerful Republican politicians belong to the best country clubs, golf at the most prestigious courses, eat at the nicest restaurants and hobnob with the elite 1%. They have just as much contempt for the slack-jawed, Confederate flag-waving rednecks who vote for them as they do the minorities who don't. They wouldn't be caught within 100 miles of a card-carrying Klan member, let alone sign up and pay dues.

They may be stupid but they're not that stupid.

Anonymous may have a list of 1000 names but anyone expecting Senators or Representatives amongst these names will likely be disappointed. Hell, 900 of them are probably undercover federal agents!

[bravenak]

16. So true

[warrprayer]

13. turd blosom

Or someone like him.

[NobodyHere]

14. I wonder if there are libel implications here.

[Quackers]

20. Nope.

We're talking about hackers who's identities are unknown breaking the security of websites and stealing information. Libel would be the least of their concerns, if ever caught.

[uppityperson]

21. Raw Story and other places are now picking this up

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/anonymous-denies-link-to-list-of-alleged-kkk-members-and-promises-to-release-its-own/

[The Second Stone]

22. The answer to the whole series of shameful episodes is to demand that every public official

denounce the KKK and racism as un-American and unacceptable. No KKK member would do such a thing, and every politician elected in this country should.

[Lodestar]

23. Yes...I'm guessing that one wasn't in the "oath" that Republicans are

forced into taking to show their loyalty to that 'other' klan called the GOP.

[uppityperson]

24. Kick for the day crew with another article on How it Happened. 17 recs for truth vs 209 for untruth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/11/02/how-anonymouss-big-kkk-dump-got-muddled-before-it-even-began/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141249737

[rockfordfile]

26. ah a head fake by the right wing

you clearly have right wingers here at Democratic Underground still trying to pushing this list. You see this coming a mile back.

[uppityperson]

27. Are you saying those who believed this list on DU are "right wingers"? How about recommending

this thread?

[L. Coyote]

28. #OpKKK *** Pastebin Leaks vs. Modern Journalism

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027312617

[alboe]

30. I'll just wait for Thursday's list.