So this is very interesting – there were reports that Republicans were being doxxed (which means their personal private information was being published online for harassment purposes) during the Kavanaugh hearings.
Someone was publishing their information on their Wikipedia pages.
When the coding was investigated by online sleuths, they said that it appeared to come from the offices of Maxine Waters.
BREAKING: Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch, and Mike Lee were targeted and doxxed with their home/office addresses and home/cell phones being published online on Wikipedia through an anonymous IP address associated with the House of Representatives. pic.twitter.com/G1GgCReA7E
— Mike Tokes (@MikeTokes) September 27, 2018
We didn’t report this because we didn’t see much corroboration for the report. And the sources are kinda shady, to be honest.
So if someone else wants to sift through this information, be our guest.
UPDATE: When searching for activity associated with the House of Representatives IP's used in the doxxing of Republican Senators, we find a posted comment from August 22, 2018 registered to Kathleen Sengstock, the Senior Legislative Assistant for Representative MAXINE WATERS. pic.twitter.com/6nRseFRt3W
— Mike Tokes (@MikeTokes) September 29, 2018
But what we DO KNOW is that Maxine Waters has denied any involvement in a statement published on her twitter:
Please read my statement on false allegations regarding the leak of the personal information of U.S. Senators: pic.twitter.com/YBEekR6jBB
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) September 29, 2018
AND that means that she’s CONFIRMING that they *were* doxxed.
I would caution anyone against taking this report to be 100% factual. It is much too easy to publish falsified reports on Twitter that people *really want* to be true, and get retweets.
UPDATE: I have reached out to Kathleen Sengstock, the Maxine Waters staffer who is associated with the House of Representatives IP address used to dox the Republican Senators.
She was very nervous. She said she is not authorized to comment & said to call Maxine Waters PR office. pic.twitter.com/rWqM2kgpf8
— Mike Tokes (@MikeTokes) September 29, 2018
It became newsworthy when Waters denied it, and confirmed that indeed SOMEONE had doxxed Republican lawmakers. After that, we’re just not sure yet…