Katie Mac Attack

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Katie Mac Attack

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Katherine McNamara aka Katie Mac is a Cybersecurity Systems Engineer.

She is an early contributor of Breaking Code Silence, This is Paris and Unsilenced Project.

Want the truth… the whole truth?  Check out our Facts blog, where we cover each series of (deliberately) unfortunate events that brought us to this point… where we were forced to write a novel in order to correct the record. Trust me, we are just as annoyed as you are.

Fiction v. Facts

Fiction v. Facts

Fiction v. Facts Written by Chelsea Filer There was a time when silence was used to control us. We called it Code Silence. Speaking out meant punishment, so we learned to disappear. Years later, we broke that silence together. We told our stories, built a...

Confused by all the conflicting narratives?  We were too. In this blog, we separate fact from fiction, provide true context, and dispel the rumors that fractured our community while damaging us personally, professionally, and as advocates. Fortunately, the truth is far less complicated than the conspiracy theories.

Pink Slip

Pink Slip

Are we really just “crazy” or were we targeted? In this blog, I explore what happens when advocacy goes wrong, and how control issues and unqualified opinions can cause real, lasting harm. This story serves as a cautionary tale and a reminder to protect yourself and your family above all else.

Are we really just “crazy” or were we targeted? In this blog, I explore what happens when advocacy goes wrong, and how control issues and unqualified opinions can cause real, lasting harm. This story serves as a cautionary tale and a reminder to protect yourself and your family above all else.

The Lawsuit

The Lawsuit

Who was really behind the lawsuits? I’ll give you one guess. TBH the facts are stranger than fiction with this one, and it’s a doozy. Get the whole story of what really happened to Breaking Code Silence, from the inside perspective of the defendants, and the original founders.

Who was really behind the lawsuits? I’ll give you one guess. TBH the facts are stranger than fiction with this one, and it’s a doozy. Get the whole story of what really happened to Breaking Code Silence, from the inside perspective of the defendants, and the original founders.

The Protection Order

The Protection Order

What do you do when you are being stalked, harassed and defamed? Turns out you can’t do anything if it’s all “technically” legal. In this blog we explore holding abusers accountable, and how the law fails to protect when ambiguity about privacy vs free speech is on the stand.

What do you do when you are being stalked, harassed and defamed? Turns out you can’t do anything if it’s all “technically” legal. In this blog we explore holding abusers accountable, and how the law fails to protect when ambiguity about privacy vs free speech is on the stand.

Plot Twist

Plot Twist

Who is “plotting” to sue who? In this blog we dive deep into the accusations that Katie was framed for hacking the BCS website and then fell victim to malicious prosecution… which is hypocracy at it’s finest.

Who is “plotting” to sue who? In this blog we dive deep into the accusations that Katie was framed for hacking the BCS website and then fell victim to malicious prosecution… which is hypocracy at it’s finest. 

Who is Katherine McNamara aka Katie Mac

Katherine McNamara aka Katie Mac first entered the public eye in the survivor advocacy space through her involvement with the Breaking Code Silence Movement which had been created by WWASP Survivors in 2014 and revamped by Suburbia’s Dirty Little Secret in 2019. She appeared in the documentary This Is Paris in 2020 introducing the #BreakingCodeSilence movement.

After a falling out with the BCS Movement Group, Katie Mac unilaterally incorporated Breaking Code Silence as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Under this new legal entity, she led a lawsuit against the original founders for alleged trademark infringement. This action was later dismissed.

After another falling out from the Breaking Code Silence nonprofit organization, Katie Mac helped form the Unsilenced Project, a similar organization aimed at exposing the Troubled Teen Industry.

The Breaking Code Silence organization later sued Katherine McNamara aka Katie Mac, and Jeremy Whiteley for Computer Fraud and Abuse. She then filed a lawsuit against the organization for sexual harassment, although her claims were settled before going to trial. She also initiated trademark disputes and has continued to threaten additional frivolous litigation against survivors.

The Truth About the Katie Mac Attack

Setting the Record Straight

My name is Jenna Bulis, and if you have heard the rumors, you may think you know me. In reality, the public narrative about me is built on manipulation, distortion, and defamation. Katie Mac has created a website, wwaspsurvivorstruth.com, that targets the institutional survivor support group WWASP Survivors and several individual survivors, including myself. This site republishes manipulated documents and contains personal information, court records, unpublished custody records, and other private details obtained through questionable means. While she claims it’s not technically illegal to post the information she has published, it is a clear violation of my privacy, and speaks to her destructive patterns and behaviors that lack ethical boundaries.

This is not merely an attack on my character. It is stalking, bullying, and harassment. By spreading falsehoods about my mental health, medical history, and legal history, she exploits stigma to discredit me. This behavior is dangerous, not only to me but to anyone in our community and reflects a five-years long pattern of obsession and smear campaigns against individuals she perceives as rivals.

Read the facts below to deconstruct the narrative.

Defamation: “Jenna is bipolar

Fiction

Katherine claims I am bipolar and required involuntary intervention due to mania.

Facts

To understand why this is false, you must understand how involuntary psychiatric holds actually work.

When someone is brought to a hospital under a mental health reason, the process starts with triage. Triage is a rapid safety assessment based heavily on the reported reason for admission. What police, EMS, or third parties say at this stage is treated as fact for the purpose of assigning a care category. Triage is not a diagnostic evaluation. It is about immediate safety and basic medical stabilization.

After triage, there may be a brief screening by mental health staff or volunteers. This screening, often a short questionnaire, also relies on third party accounts. If there is perceived risk, the person may be placed on a 72 hour involuntary hold at an inpatient facility. This hold is meant for observation and basic care, not formal diagnosis.

If transferred to inpatient care, as I was to UHS for three days, the patient typically meets with a physician for a short medication review and symptom check. There is no comprehensive psychological testing. ICD-10 codes assigned at intake are often repeated at discharge without independent verification.

In my case, a third party falsely reported I had bipolar disorder. That claim was entered at triage and carried through in paperwork. No clinician performed testing or confirmed the diagnosis. Since then, multiple independent, licensed evaluators have confirmed my correct diagnosis is PTSD, not bipolar disorder.

Katherine ignores these facts and presents a declaration written by my attorney as proof I am bipolar. This declaration was to show the court that I was in compliance with medical treatment shortly after discharge from UHS. My lawyer chose the word “diagnosed with” as shorthand to the point that I was in compliance with treatment. Katherine knows her republication of this declaration section is a distortion. She is counting on the public’s lack of understanding of the hold process to make the lie sound credible. I have had many mental health assessments and psychological evaluations that disagree with UHS and Katie since 2020. I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2021 and 2024 with many times before and after, it would be exhaustive to include the entire timeline that documents this. Please note that the diagnosis went from PTSD F43.10 to F43.9 due to ongoing trauma and harassment. 

Further deconstruction can be found on the Pink Slip blog.

Defamation:  “Jenna has substance use disorder”

Fiction

Katherine claims I have a substance use disorder. 

Facts

A certified evaluator reviewed my history in 2024 using the ASAM criteria and concluded: no history of substance misuse, and no treatment services needed. The evaluator also noted the Fairfax medical records contained contradictory errors, including a missing Substance Use Disorder Assessment that would have been required for any valid diagnosis. This missing assessment nullifies any claim of a substance use disorder. Additionally, multiple other assessments spanning over the past 5 years have concluded I have no substance use disorder. 

Read Pink Slip for the full story.

Defamation: “Jenna lost custody of her children”

Fiction

Katherine claims I lost custody of my kids and blame her for it.

Facts

This is a blatant falsehood. I currently have legal custody of my children and share physical custody equally with their father. Claims stating otherwise are entirely fabricated and are intended solely to damage my credibility and character. Spreading misinformation about custody is harmful and reckless, especially when it involves my children’s well-being. This lie is a clear attempt to undermine me personally and professionally by weaponizing private family matters. I will not be linking evidence as it is NOBODY’S business what is happening with custody over my minor children. Any seal I sought was to protect my children’s privacy rights as their selected rights guardian advocate. I would have to question any parent that does not understand this.

Read A Pattern for the full story.

Lie: “Jenna claimed Katie was responsible for her arrest”

Fiction

Katherine claims that I have stated she is responsible for my arrest thus requiring her to post arrest details to clear her name and dispute the allegation. 

Facts

There is no record or statement from me claiming that Katie directly caused my arrest. What I have stated is that Katie’s actions contributed to a situation which eventually led to my arrest. It is important to note that the charges against me were dismissed with prejudice, which means the case was permanently closed. Furthermore, Katie’s decision to publicly share and dox these highly inaccurate arrest records was done with malicious intent to defame me. This action is not only unethical, but it sets a bad precedence of behavior within a community of trauma survivors.

Read Fiction v. Facts for further explanation.

Lie: “Jenna claims Katie hacked her”

Fiction

Katherine claims that I claim she is part of the CIA and that she hacked me.

Facts

This accusation is completely fabricated and absurd. What I have stated and documented is that Katie deliberately locked me and other co-founders out of our Breaking Code Silence accounts, deleted valuable intellectual property, and held critical IP hostage. These are verifiable actions, and they caused significant harm to the organization and its mission. Katie’s refusal to address these actions honestly, combined with her spreading baseless claims about hacking and CIA involvement, is a deliberate attempt to confuse the narrative and evade accountability. She has never provided any proof to support her allegations. This distortion of facts is yet another tactic to distract from her own misconduct and to smear my reputation.

Read The Split and BCS 2.0 for the full story.

Lie: Katie solely built the largest TTI database

Fiction

Katherine claims that she solely built and paid for the documents to support the largest TTI database.

Facts

LOL. Insanity.

Katie Mac did not build the largest TTI database. Advocates and activists have been collecting data on the troubled teen industry for decades, much of it publicly accessible through forums like Fornits, Reddit, Wikipedia, personal blogs, and archive websites like WWASPSurvivors.com. When she began volunteering with WWASP Survivors, it was to help expand their database, not to originate one.

I personally contributed significant research, including academic studies, investigative findings, and systemic analysis. What began as a collaboration within WWASP Survivors later moved into Breaking Code Silence, where many others also shared their personal archives to support the group’s mission. I personally spent hundreds of hours organizing documents, analyzing data, identifying trends and making reports to authorities based on that data collection.

During the BCS split, Katherine cut off access to shared organizing spaces and research groups. She then took the collective data into the new Breaking Code Silence organization she created and later carried the same material over to Unsilenced. She has since watermarked all of this content for Unsilenced, often cropping out website headers and copyright claims, including on the personal testimonies of survivors. She gives no acknowledgment to the original contributors and instead claims total ownership of work that was built through collaboration. This is another example of her ongoing pattern of predatory conversion.

Lie: Katie is the victim of survivor abuse

Fiction

Katherine claims that she was bullied and silenced by “Breaking Code Silence.”

Facts

This accusation is a deliberate manipulation of facts. Katie Mac launched smear campaigns, spread rumors, and engaged in harassment to conceal her predatory takeover of Breaking Code Silence. She financed and initiated legal action against the original creators while misrepresenting the origins and purpose of an advocacy movement. When her efforts collapsed, she repeated the same pattern by crying victim and fueling another online smear campaign.

Katie’s behavior follows a consistent cycle. Her hostile and aggressive actions generate conflict, then she recasts herself as the injured party. The damage she points to is not evidence of victimization, but the direct result of the harm she set in motion.

Lie: Katie’s “news” website is harmless

Fiction

Katherine claims her website’s purpose is to correct misinformation and not to defame. 

Facts

Katherine’s creation of a website publishing manipulated family court documents is not harmless. It is targeted harassment. It is designed to isolate me socially, damage my reputation professionally, and intimidate me into silence.

Outdated family court documents are a tool of control in abusive situations. They are used to create a public record that looks official but tells a false story. By locating and republishing these, Katherine is engaging in stalking and coordinated bullying. She is also signaling to others in the community that it is acceptable to weaponize mental health stigma in personal disputes.

Page one of her site states she will take it down if I were to issue a public apology and release her from liability. This is privacy extortion with punishment attached. It is an aggressive and hostile action.

Read Protection Order for the full story.

This must stop.

Katherine McNamara’s conduct is not about truth or public interest. It is about discrediting me using stigma and misinformation. She manipulates incomplete records, counts on the public not understanding medical and legal processes, and spreads these lies through a dedicated harassment site.

If this is acceptable behavior toward me, then it sets a precedent for targeting anyone with a mental health condition. For members of our community who are bipolar, it means that your medical history can be twisted into a weapon against you to control by claiming mania. For those with PTSD, it means your trauma can be reframed as instability. For anyone prescribed medication, it means your treatment can be spun as addiction.

We cannot normalize this. We cannot allow public spaces to be used for stalking, bullying, and silencing those who speak out. The truth matters. Documentation matters. And when someone chooses to weaponize both through manipulation, they are telling us exactly who they are.

Who is Katherine McNamara aka Katie Mac

Katherine McNamara aka Katie Mac first entered the public eye in the survivor advocacy space through her involvement with the Breaking Code Silence Movement which had been created by WWASP Survivors in 2014 and revamped by Suburbia’s Dirty Little Secret in 2019. She appeared in the documentary This Is Paris in 2020 introducing the #BreakingCodeSilence movement.

After a falling out with the BCS Movement Group, Katie Mac unilaterally incorporated Breaking Code Silence as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Under this new legal entity, she led a lawsuit against the original founders for alleged trademark infringement. This action was later dismissed.

After another falling out from the Breaking Code Silence nonprofit organization, Katie Mac helped form the Unsilenced Project, a similar organization aimed at exposing the Troubled Teen Industry.

The Breaking Code Silence organization later sued Katherine McNamara aka Katie Mac, and Jeremy Whiteley for Computer Fraud and Abuse. She then filed a lawsuit against the organization for sexual harassment, although her claims were settled before going to trial. She also initiated trademark disputes and has continued to threaten additional frivolous litigation against survivors.

The Truth About the Katie Mac Attack

Setting the Record Straight

My name is Jenna Bulis, and if you have heard the rumors, you may think you know me. In reality, the public narrative about me is built on manipulation, distortion, and defamation. Katie Mac has created a website, wwaspsurvivorstruth.com, that targets the institutional survivor support group WWASP Survivors and several individual survivors, including myself. This site republishes manipulated documents and contains personal information, court records, unpublished custody records, and other private details obtained through questionable means. While she claims it’s not technically illegal to post the information she has published, it is a clear violation of my privacy, and speaks to her destructive patterns and behaviors that lack ethical boundaries.

This is not merely an attack on my character. It is stalking, bullying, and harassment. By spreading falsehoods about my mental health, medical history, and legal history, she exploits stigma to discredit me. This behavior is dangerous, not only to me but to anyone in our community and reflects a five-years long pattern of obsession and smear campaigns against individuals she perceives as rivals.

Read the facts below to deconstruct the narrative.

Defamation: “Jenna is bipolar

Fiction

Katherine claims I am bipolar and required involuntary intervention due to mania.

Facts

To understand why this is false, you must understand how involuntary psychiatric holds actually work.

When someone is brought to a hospital under a mental health reason, the process starts with triage. Triage is a rapid safety assessment based heavily on the reported reason for admission. What police, EMS, or third parties say at this stage is treated as fact for the purpose of assigning a care category. Triage is not a diagnostic evaluation. It is about immediate safety and basic medical stabilization.

After triage, there may be a brief screening by mental health staff or volunteers. This screening, often a short questionnaire, also relies on third party accounts. If there is perceived risk, the person may be placed on a 72 hour involuntary hold at an inpatient facility. This hold is meant for observation and basic care, not formal diagnosis.

If transferred to inpatient care, as I was to UHS for three days, the patient typically meets with a physician for a short medication review and symptom check. There is no comprehensive psychological testing. ICD-10 codes assigned at intake are often repeated at discharge without independent verification.

In my case, a third party falsely reported I had bipolar disorder. That claim was entered at triage and carried through in paperwork. No clinician performed testing or confirmed the diagnosis. Since then, multiple independent, licensed evaluators have confirmed my correct diagnosis is PTSD, not bipolar disorder.

Katherine ignores these facts and presents a declaration written by my attorney as proof I am bipolar. This declaration was to show the court that I was in compliance with medical treatment shortly after discharge from UHS. My lawyer chose the word “diagnosed with” as shorthand to the point that I was in compliance with treatment. Katherine knows her republication of this declaration section is a distortion. She is counting on the public’s lack of understanding of the hold process to make the lie sound credible. I have had many mental health assessments and psychological evaluations that disagree with UHS and Katie since 2020. I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2021 and 2024 with many times before and after, it would be exhaustive to include the entire timeline that documents this. Please note that the diagnosis went from PTSD F43.10 to F43.9 due to ongoing trauma and harassment. 

Further deconstruction can be found on the Pink Slip blog.

Defamation:  “Jenna has substance use disorder”

Fiction

Katherine claims I have a substance use disorder. 

Facts

A certified evaluator reviewed my history in 2024 using the ASAM criteria and concluded: no history of substance misuse, and no treatment services needed. The evaluator also noted the Fairfax medical records contained contradictory errors, including a missing Substance Use Disorder Assessment that would have been required for any valid diagnosis. This missing assessment nullifies any claim of a substance use disorder. Additionally, multiple other assessments spanning over the past 5 years have concluded I have no substance use disorder. 

Read Pink Slip for the full story.

Defamation: “Jenna lost custody of her children”

Fiction

Katherine claims I lost custody of my kids and blame her for it.

Facts

This is a blatant falsehood. I currently have legal custody of my children and share physical custody equally with their father. Claims stating otherwise are entirely fabricated and are intended solely to damage my credibility and character. Spreading misinformation about custody is harmful and reckless, especially when it involves my children’s well-being. This lie is a clear attempt to undermine me personally and professionally by weaponizing private family matters. I will not be linking evidence as it is NOBODY’S business what is happening with custody over my minor children. Any seal I sought was to protect my children’s privacy rights as their selected rights guardian advocate. I would have to question any parent that does not understand this.

Read A Pattern for the full story.

Lie: “Jenna claimed Katie was responsible for her arrest”

Fiction

Katherine claims that I have stated she is responsible for my arrest thus requiring her to post arrest details to clear her name and dispute the allegation. 

Facts

There is no record or statement from me claiming that Katie directly caused my arrest. What I have stated is that Katie’s actions contributed to a situation which eventually led to my arrest. It is important to note that the charges against me were dismissed with prejudice, which means the case was permanently closed. Furthermore, Katie’s decision to publicly share and dox these highly inaccurate arrest records was done with malicious intent to defame me. This action is not only unethical, but it sets a bad precedence of behavior within a community of trauma survivors.

Read Fiction v. Facts for further explanation.

Lie: “Jenna claims Katie hacked her”

Fiction

Katherine claims that I claim she is part of the CIA and that she hacked me.

Facts

This accusation is completely fabricated and absurd. What I have stated and documented is that Katie deliberately locked me and other co-founders out of our Breaking Code Silence accounts, deleted valuable intellectual property, and held critical IP hostage. These are verifiable actions, and they caused significant harm to the organization and its mission. Katie’s refusal to address these actions honestly, combined with her spreading baseless claims about hacking and CIA involvement, is a deliberate attempt to confuse the narrative and evade accountability. She has never provided any proof to support her allegations. This distortion of facts is yet another tactic to distract from her own misconduct and to smear my reputation.

Read The Split and BCS 2.0 for the full story.

Lie: Katie soley built the largest TTI database

Fiction

Katherine claims that she solely built and paid for the documents to support the largest TTI database.

Facts

LOL. Insanity.

Katie Mac did not build the largest TTI database. Advocates and activists have been collecting data on the troubled teen industry for decades, much of it publicly accessible through forums like Fornits, Reddit, Wikipedia, personal blogs, and archive websites like WWASPSurvivors.com. When she began volunteering with WWASP Survivors, it was to help expand their database, not to originate one.

I personally contributed significant research, including academic studies, investigative findings, and systemic analysis. What began as a collaboration within WWASP Survivors later moved into Breaking Code Silence, where many others also shared their personal archives to support the group’s mission. I personally spent hundreds of hours organizing documents, analyzing data, identifying trends and making reports to authorities based on that data collection.

During the BCS split, Katherine cut off access to shared organizing spaces and research groups. She then took the collective data into the new Breaking Code Silence organization she created and later carried the same material over to Unsilenced. She has since watermarked all of this content for Unsilenced, often cropping out website headers and copyright claims, including on the personal testimonies of survivors. She gives no acknowledgment to the original contributors and instead claims total ownership of work that was built through collaboration. This is another example of her ongoing pattern of predatory conversion.

Lie: Katie is the victim of survivor abuse

Fiction

Katie claims she was bullied and silenced by “Breaking Code Silence”

Facts

This accusation is a deliberate manipulation of facts. Katie launched smear campaigns, spread rumors, and engaged in harassment to conceal her predatory takeover of Breaking Code Silence. She financed and initiated legal action against the original creators while misrepresenting the origins and purpose of an advocacy movement. When her efforts collapsed, she repeated the same pattern by crying victim and fueling another online smear campaign.

Katie’s behavior follows a consistent cycle. Her hostile and aggressive actions generate conflict, then she recasts herself as the injured party. The damage she points to is not evidence of victimization, but the direct result of the harm she set in motion.

Lie: Katie’s “news” website is harmless

Fiction

Katherine claims her website’s purpose is to correct misinformation and not to defame. 

Facts

Katherine’s creation of a website publishing manipulated family court documents is not harmless. It is targeted harassment. It is designed to isolate me socially, damage my reputation professionally, and intimidate me into silence.

Outdated family court documents are a tool of control in abusive situations. They are used to create a public record that looks official but tells a false story. By locating and republishing these, Katherine is engaging in stalking and coordinated bullying. She is also signaling to others in the community that it is acceptable to weaponize mental health stigma in personal disputes.

Page one of her site states she will take it down if I were to issue a public apology and release her from liability. This is privacy extortion with punishment attached. It is an aggressive and hostile action.

Read Protection Order for the full story.

This must stop.

Katherine McNamara’s conduct is not about truth or public interest. It is about discrediting me using stigma and misinformation. She manipulates incomplete records, counts on the public not understanding medical and legal processes, and spreads these lies through a dedicated harassment site.

If this is acceptable behavior toward me, then it sets a precedent for targeting anyone with a mental health condition. For members of our community who are bipolar, it means that your medical history can be twisted into a weapon against you to control by claiming mania. For those with PTSD, it means your trauma can be reframed as instability. For anyone prescribed medication, it means your treatment can be spun as addiction.

We cannot normalize this. We cannot allow public spaces to be used for stalking, bullying, and silencing those who speak out. The truth matters. Documentation matters. And when someone chooses to weaponize both through manipulation, they are telling us exactly who they are.

Katherine McNamara aka Katie Mac is a Cybersecurity Systems Engineer.

She is an early contributor of #breakingcodesilence, Breaking Code Silence, This is Paris and Unsilenced Project.

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