Anonymous’s KKK ‘leak’ targets the elusive online world of white nationalism

Washington Post ^ | November 5, 2015 | By Abby Ohlheiser

[Brad from Tennessee]

After days of inaccuracies, confusing reports, and false starts, Anonymous’s much-hyped “Operation KKK” finally released a list of — if not the promised 1,000 — hundreds of names and social media accounts, many of which appear to have clear connections to the Ku Klux Klan, or other white supremacy groups.

The Pastebin document was distributed via Twitter on Thursday afternoon. It contains hundreds of links to individual Facebook accounts, some of which had already been removed in the days before the promised leak. As the list began to circulate, even more of the linked accounts began to vanish.

The list includes many already known Klan members, and many others with public online profiles that clearly indicate an affiliation with a white supremacy organization.

The data dump was one of the most widely-hyped operations in the history of Anonymous, after the amorphous internet collective promised last week to unmask about 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan, or their associates. But as is characteristic of the sometimes chaotic, leaderless group, things didn’t go quite as according to plan: an early leak of names, phone numbers, and emails that one hacker said were those of Klan members proved to be substantially inaccurate, threatening to tank the operation before it began. The operation’s official Twitter presence eventually disowned that leak, and promised a more carefully-researched list on Thursday.

The resulting list, although unverified, appears mixed on that front. It is, in part, a documentation of several white supremacist networks on Facebook, which Anonymous says it compiled via “human intelligence.” That included consulting with experts and public records, and covert online chats with some of the individuals included on the list. “You never know who you are talking to on the internet,” Anonymous said. . .

[RedHeeler]

Were the initials BHO or Hillary Clinton found?

[Darteaus94025]

Looking forward to the release of the names of the Communist Party, Black Lives Matter, Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam.

[a fool in paradise]

“After days of inaccuracies, confusing reports, and false starts, Anonymous’s much-hyped “Operation KKK” finally released a list of — if not the promised 1,000 — hundreds of names and social media accounts, many of which appear to have clear connections to the Ku Klux Klan, or other white supremacy groups.”

Joe McCarthy had a list of Communists in government and that was considered a BAD thing...

[a fool in paradise]

an early leak of names, phone numbers, and emails that one hacker said were those of Klan members proved to be substantially inaccurate,

Anonymousism, character assassination from vague liberal hacktivists.

[Fai Mao]

No BHO but I bet the DNC and NAACP were

[a fool in paradise]

which Anonymous says it compiled via “human intelligence.” That included consulting with experts

SPLC?

[uncitizen]

Anonymous is supposed to be some big time super hackers and they can’t even get this right? Something stinks here.....

[snuffy smiff]

They even managed to miss all the demo pervs and racists in PA state government.

[RedHeeler]

perhaps, without a doubt.

[montag813]

Isn’t it funny that if people have Black pride, Asian pride or Hispanic pride, they are celebrated. But if they have White Pride, they are denounced and linked to the non-existent KKK.

[ETL]

Democrats made this guy leader of the Senate!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
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From the Washington Post:

"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.."..."

"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html

[onthegulf]

The KKK was all the Democrats.Check the history books. Senator Byrd was a Grand Wizard, Strom Thurmond just a couple of names.

[ETL]

"They [his fellow democrats] refer to the Senate's senior Democrat [Robert Byrd] as the 'conscience of the Senate.'..."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin030801.asp

[Iron Munro]

A DEMOCRAT PARTY ICON

Democrat Robert C. Byrd - KKK Member and United States Senator

Served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the longest-serving U.S. Senator and, at the time of his death, the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress.

In his 20s and 30s as a KKK member Byrd rose to the positions of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group’s Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd defended the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.

[Iron Munro]

Nationalism is a bad thing?

They sound like Barack Obama.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[(Byrd) had earlier written “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side.”]

Most American units were still segregated during World War II while Byrd was Rosie the Riveter. Byrd was simply rationalizing his cowardice. Fighting an armed enemy was not the type of odds Byrd and his Klan minions preferred. Byrd’s idea of combat was a night raid where he could lead an overwhelming force of armed halfwits against some unsuspecting target.

[SteveinSATX]

After all that hype they expose one admitted klan member who didn’t even try to hide it! The post really climbed out on a limb to offer some hard hitting investigative journalism...

[LS]

Bingo. The KKK was created by Dems including many Confederates.

[BwanaNdege]

You never know who you are talking to on the internet, Anonymous said. . .

Pot --> Kettle?