FBI Informant Reveals How He Thwarted an Obama Assassination By KKK, Claims Presidency, Michael Brown Protests Increased Klan Membership

In the summer of 2008, Joe Moore, a former Army sniper, had insinuated himself into the upper ranks of the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Gainesville, Florida, while serving as an undercover FBI informant. Then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama was running for president, and Moore’s KKK brethren let him in on a plot to assassinate the popular Democrat vying to be the nation’s first Black president. Obama would be coming to nearby Kissimmee in October, and, as Moore told NPR in an interview with host Tonya Mosley this week, “they disclosed to me that they had a plan that included multiple members, vehicles, two anti-materiel rifles, some law enforcement personnel that would be involved to some degree” in a plan to “deliver very powerful firepower in his direction” during Obama’s motorcade and rally. The Klan was getting inside information on Obama’s visit from police sources and other help from contacts at the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles, who could assist with fake license plate registration information on vehicles to be procured from a local junkyard, said Moore. He had gained the KKK leaders’ confidence as the right man for the mission due to his military background as a marksman and intelligence...