Joe Moore, a former U.S. Army sniper turned FBI informant, has publicly exposed the Ku Klux Klan’s plan to kill former President Barack Obama in 2008, months before he was inaugurated into office.
Moore, a Jacksonville, Florida native, revealed that in September 2008, several members of the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Wayward, FL were planning to kill Barack Obama days before he was elected president. Their plan was very detailed, including the day, the time, the location of the hit, their weapons (.50-caliber rifles), how they would later destroy their vehicles, and other potential obstacles in their way.
However, the only detail they forgot to consider was that their apparent well-thought-out plan would be foiled by one of their own: Joe Moore — who had been initiated into the “Invisible Empire” a year before the planned takedown. Coming from the U.S. Army, Moore’s military record and expert gunmanship impressed the Klansmen enough to welcome him in. Joe Moore’s embellished record was so awing that the honorably discharged army vet was put into position as the gunman who would take out Obama.
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While impressing his fellow Klansmen, Moore was also working with the Feds as a counterterrorism FBI informant who’d just infiltrated America’s oldest hate group: the Ku Klux Klan. In his new memoir, ‘White Robes and Broken Badges,’ Moore wrote about his time targeting the KKK in the FBI’s first-ever undercover operation eyeing them. Joe Moore wrote, “I had to follow [my orders] and do whatever it took to prevent the assassination of Barack Obama. Because I was the only one who could.”
Moore recalled his time attending cross burnings, witnessing several horrific acts of violence, and participating in eerie rituals, all while wearing a wire recording device. The FBI informant even busted several police officers and government officials who’d secretly pledged their allegiance to the Ku Klux Klan.
Recalling the challenges of playing a double agent, Moore wrote, “The deeper I became entrenched in the Klan, the more of a challenge it became to leave all that at the door when I went home to my wife and son. All I could visualize were members kicking in the door to come get me after learning my true purpose.”
Moore ended up restoring to breathing techniques he learned while in the armed forces to self-regulate. However, the paranoia was nowhere near over for Joe Moore as things with the KKK only got harder to maintain as Barack Obama’s popularity coupled after 18-year-old Michael Brown’s 2014 murder by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Interest and enrollment soon heightened with the KKK and other White supremacist groups.
However, with his help, several takedowns would occur, including a big win in 2017, when four KKK members were charged and sentenced in the planned killing of a Black man named Warren Williams. After the guilty verdict, the fear spread like wildfire across many KKK chapters nationwide and resulted in plummeting numbers and transfers to other alt-right groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
Speaking on his undercover work, Moore said, “I take great pride in dealing a hateful organization a devastating near deathblow. The overall movement in general, though, was far, far from dead or even in decline.” He added, “The Klan and the like-minded groups it has produced have learned to balance bullets with bluster and pistols with paper, both of which have the potential to do far more irrevocable damage on the state of our democracy than the former. With the 2024 election looming, and democracy itself on the ballot . . . we should be very afraid.”
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