Mystery: Someone Doxxed Republican Senators During the Kavanaugh Hearings
As Brett Kavanaugh testified Thursday in the Senate, refuting allegations that he sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when the pair were both teenagers, a mystery was brewing in the House of Representatives, where someone connected to a House computer was “doxxing” select Senators — surreptitiously editing Wikipedia to reveal the private names and addresses of prominent Judiciary Committee Republicans. . .
As soon as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) concluded his fiery remarks describing the Kavanaugh affair as “the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics,” information for Graham and Republican Senators Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch, both of Utah, appeared on the online encyclopedia.
Not all of the information was correct. One phone number purportedly belonging to Graham redirected to a D.C. non-profit called the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (or SMYAL).
The information was removed almost as quickly as it was discovered, and after a raucous, bipartisan outcry on Twitter, and the bot’s administrators deleted the Tweets. The damage was done, however, and the intent was clear: someone in the House was hoping leftist (or anti-Kavanaugh) activists would jam senators’ cell phones and protest Republicans at their private residences — something several prominent leftists have been suggesting on Twitter. (Read more from “Mystery: Someone Doxxed Republican Senators During the Kavanaugh Hearings” HERE)
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