Title: Was Journalist Jen Moore Killed After Contacting Authorities About Bill Clinton? | Snopes.com
Headings: Was Journalist Jen Moore Killed After Contacting Authorities About Bill Clinton?
Was Journalist Jen Moore Killed After Contacting Authorities About Bill Clinton?
Conspiracy blogs cited vague "preliminary reports" to suggest that Jen Moore could have been part of the "Clinton body count."
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Content: Lamar Robinson told us that local authorities do not believe Moore’s death came under suspicious circumstances. Moore (whose identification as an “investigative journalist” apparently stems from her activity posting conspiracy theory videos to YouTube under the screen name “Task Force”) supposedly died just after contacting officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with information she gleaned from interviewing a 26-year-old man — a man who allegedly claimed that former president Bill Clinton had sexually assaulted him, and that he had been “pimped out” to private events held by “elites” in Washington D.C. (Various blogs contradictorily claimed that Moore died either either one week or four weeks after supposedly contacting federal investigators.) Whether Moore actually interviewed a subject who made such allegations, and whether Moore in fact reported those allegations to the DHS and FBI shortly before her death remains unconfirmed. The claims that she did stem primarily from an article published TruePundit.com, an unreliable conspiracy-driven website that has a long history of claiming possession of exclusive FBI information, and that publishes pseudonymously-bylined articles while providing no contact information. Several blog posts also included screen captures of text messages purportedly sent by Moore saying that she thought that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was the “best place to go” with her allegations because “the top FBI are blackmailed or involved.” According to Moore, President Donald Trump had ordered ICE’s homeland security investigations unit to focus on arresting child traffickers, and because of that, she said, “the Dems and some [Republicans] are trying to disband” the agency. In fact, the push to abolish ICE has been credited to a liberal activist, Sean McElwee, after he first used the term on Twitter in February 2017. In June 2018, 19 special agents from that agency asked Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to spin them off into their own agency in order to avoid their being associated with deportation efforts that have led to public criticism of ICE. Homeland Security officials did not respond to our request for comment. An FBI spokesperson told us via email that, per bureau policy, they could not confirm whether they had or had not been contacted by Moore.