According to a new report, hundreds of law enforcement officers, politicians and military employees are members of the far-right anti-government extremist group the Oath Keepers.
Legislators, U.S. law enforcement, military members and more made up hundreds of names that were listed on a leaked Oath Keepers membership list. The Oath Keepers, a group that played a major role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, contained over 38,000 names.
More than 370 people on the list are believed to work in U.S. law enforcement agencies, CBS News reports. There were 100 names on the list that belonged to military workers and more than 80 people on the list were politicians.
The list has now been entered into a database and published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets, the news outlet reports.
“Even for those who claimed to have left the organization when it began to employ more aggressive tactics in 2014, it is important to remember that the Oath Keepers have espoused extremism since their founding, and this fact was not enough to deter these individuals from signing up,” reads the reports, CBS News reports.
The Oath Keepers were founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, and its members are known for having extreme far-right beliefs, with its constitution requiring members to defend the organization “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
