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New Report Exposes Massive Government Surveillance of Americans’ Financial Data
March 6, 2024
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report titled, “Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans.”
The report reveals alarming evidence of federal law enforcement engaging in broad financial surveillance and prying into the private transactions of American consumers. This surveillance, not predicated on specific evidence of criminal conduct, targeted terms and transactions related to core political and religious expressions protected by the Constitution.
Federal law enforcement, including the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the FBI, facilitated multiple backchannel discussions with financial institutions to gather Americans’ private financial information.
These discussions involved some of the largest financial institutions in the United States, such as Barclays, U.S. Bank, Charles Schwab, HSBC, Bank of America, PayPal, and many others.
Tactics included keyword filtering of transactions, targeting terms like:
- "MAGA" and "TRUMP,"
- as well as purchases of books,
- religious texts,
- firearms-related items,
- and recreational stores,
- like Cabela’s,
- Bass Pro Shop, and
- Dick’s Sporting Goods.
This surveillance extended beyond criminal suspicion, likely encompassing millions of Americans with conservative viewpoints or Second Amendment interests.
H/T Freeper bitt
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On the funding, at least in part...
From 2024...
House weaponization panel subpoenas National Science Foundation over misinformation research
This is war and we have the right to respond accordingly.
This is how all fascist governments begin. The Third Reich, CCCP, Red China.
I’m pretty sure this government can kiss my dissent.
All of tech is being used against good people. So, why not AI also?
The Left doesn’t like free speech (and, hence, the Constitution).
“the House Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Committee revealed that the U.S. government is funding AI censorship technology via the National Science Foundation (NSF)...”
No, the US Congress is funding it through the National Science Foundation, since the US Congress authorizes all funding, not “the US government”. Unless Congress defunds this stuff, they are not serious at all about stopping it.
What follows is a bill that
finances the building of many more prisons.
Past: prologue. Kneel,bitches.
Sorrowing, I am.
Tyranny!
God, guns and guts made us free. Not Adam and Steve, sit in’s, DEI or wokeness.
F the feds and all the alphabets.
F Biden
Remember in early 2000s when “Dissent is Patriotic”? I guess that only works when a republican is president.
Weaponization of the Federal Government = 2020
Trump nods
Why would the Houthis do this? They are a threat to our civil liberties.
BFL
That will be 60% of real Americans.
Why not?
Is there any indication from the American peasants that this would be a bad thing to endure?
Just one more link in the heavy chains-of-tyranny that are already around our necks...
Indolence & inaction is how we came to be under communist rule and it is what will continue that dark tyranny for all of our descendants...
