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Zaac · Nov 3, 2015

Just a weird story. Anonymous says this was NOT their list and that they will release their list on Thursday.

Prominent US Senators and Mayors Outed as Members of the KKK by Anonymous
Tom Cahill | November 2, 2015
Anonymous delivers on its promise to unhood thousands of KKK members.

Several prominent US Senators and mayors have been outed as members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other racist groups by the hacktivist collective Anonymous, and the group hints that more politicians and public figures will be named in the near future.

In a new post on document-dumping site pastebin, Anonymous names US Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Cornyn (R-Tx.), Dan Coats (R-In.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) as members of the KKK. Anonymous also outed several mayors of major US cities, including Madeline Rogero of Knoxville, Tennessee; Jim Gray of Lexington, Kentucky; Paul D. Fraim of Norfolk, Virginia; Kent Guinn of Ocala, Florida; and Tom Henry of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Thom Tillis, who is listed as a member of the United Northern and Southern Knights of the KKK in Thornton, was North Carolina’s Speaker of the House before being elected to the US Senate in 2014. Tillis was behind the implementation of numerous far-right policies in the Tar Heel State including voter ID laws, public education cuts, restrictions on abortion that were later struck down by federal judges, tax hikes on low-income earners to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, among others.

John Cornyn, who Anonymous claims is affililiated with the United White Knights of the KKK, is the current Majority Whip, making him one of the most powerful members of the US Senate. Johnny Isakson is listed as a member of the Original Knight Riders of the KKK. Isakson served as a U.S. Congressman for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District between 1999 and 2005. He currently serves as Georgia’s senior US Senator, and is up for re-election in 2016. Dan Coats is Indiana’s senior US Senator, and is listed as a member of the United Northern and Southern Knights of the KKK — along with Thom Tillis.

Jim Gray of Lexington, Kentucky, who Anonymous says is a member of the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is openly gay. Gray vehemently denied any ties to the KKK on his official Twitter feed:

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Use of Time · Nov 3, 2015

Nobody was outed. The list doesn't even make sense considering some of the names and the initiatives they have championed.

Squire Robertsson · Nov 3, 2015

I also find the list hard to believe. This is not the late 40s-early 50s. The era when Robert Byrd joined the Klan. Today with opposition research, I tend to think their political opponents would have bashed over the head with any scent of Klan membership.

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Nobody was outed. The list doesn't even make sense considering some of the names and the initiatives they have championed.
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mcdirector · Nov 4, 2015

according to snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/anonymous-opkkk/#!

However, the articles cited documents published anonymously to the site Pastebin, to which anyone may upload text-based content. And as with any Anonymous-linked operation, anyone is also free to claim affiliation with the group and release information, falsely claiming that data was collected as part of an effort by the collective which is just what the similarly large Twitter account @YourAnonNews cautioned the media to be mindful of:

The linked tweet didn't post, but it's a reminder that any yahoo can post anonymous info about anyone on anything.

Similar info from truth or fiction http://www.truthorfiction.com/promi...-mayors-outed-as-members-of-kkk-by-anonymous/

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