Posted on 03/08/2024 4:53:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
Not even clear that reams of Jan. 6 bank customer information was useful to Treasury and FBI, hearing witnesses say. Jordan Peterson warns China model is coming.
Congressional Democrats are so concerned about losing statutory workarounds for the Fourth Amendment that they appear willing to tolerate red states using financial transactions to track women who have abortions, a major concern after the Supreme Court struck down federal abortion rights.
That's the impression from hearing Thursday of the House Judiciary Committee's Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee on alleged collusion between the federal government and banks for politically motivated surveillance in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
Committee Republicans released an interim staff report Wednesday night documenting meetings among federal agencies and large financial institutions to discuss "voluntarily" sharing customer information without a warrant or notification to customers under laws including the Bank Secrecy Act.
The relationships echo federal pressure on social media companies to censor disfavored narratives on COVID-19, elections and Hunter Biden's laptop and public-private collaborations such as the Department of Homeland Security-inspired Election Integrity partnership.
Republican congressmen including Kentucky's Thomas Massie and California's Darrell Issa suggested Thursday they wanted major revisions to the BSA, seeing it as fundamentally incompatible with the Fourth Amendment.
"'Everything Everywhere All at Once' won the Oscar last year for the best movie, but it's not the standard for a Fourth Amendment warrant," Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D, said jokingly.
"Please do not cavalierly discard financial information as law enforcement took to prevent the next January 6," Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a strong supporter of abortion rights, urged Republicans. Their likely presidential nominee, Donald Trump, "all but promises another assault" on democracy, she said.
FBI whistleblower George Hill prompted the yearlong investigation by testifying that Bank of America, unprompted, gave the feds the names of customers who used their cards in the D.C. area Jan. 5-7, 2021, "overlaid with any firearm purchase at any time," said Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
The feds told financial institutions to search transactions using Merchant Category Codes (MCCs), such as gun-related keywords and firearms retailers Cabela's and Bass Pro Shop, and the interbank Zelle network for alleged Jan. 6-related keywords such as "MAGA" and purchases like "religious texts" to identify potential "homegrown violent extremism," the report says.
Republicans said they uncovered a federally led "Domestic Security Alliance Council" that shares "intelligence products,'' such as a report branding opponents of gun control and "open borders" as potential domestic terrorists, with hundreds of "member" companies representing two-thirds of the economy.
"We're not exactly sure" what the feds share in the private portal "because it's secret," Jordan said.....
The democRATs would love a Chinese style “Social Credit System”.
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Someone told me that tptb watch where the $ goes anywhere it goes.
Democrats support financial surveillance.
As long as it isn’t them the Biden crime family makes nods.
This is the left's idea of 'democracy'? Totalitarian fear control tactics?Branding people for their political differences? What pigs.
Then again, since the left is claiming they've always been for border control this could backfire on them Nah, their thugs and goons will quickly switch and dump the part about 'domestic terrorist being opponents of open borders'.
Since Biden's claiming that ground people who oppose open borders are now 'the good people': democrats. Further proof? Biden even called the Georgia killer "an illegal". Of course the MSM the corrupt press - Washington Post and New York Times will turn on a dime - as they always do when told how high they can jump. The new term isn't 'newcomer' it's 'illegal'.
I beg to differ.
There is NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING, that supersedes abortion for the Democrats.
Abortion is the final hill that Democrats will die on.
(From the article) : ”Not even clear that reams of Jan. 6 bank customer information was useful to Treasury and FBI, hearing witnesses say.
Jordan Peterson warns China model is coming.”
” Congressional Democrats are so concerned about losing statutory workarounds for the Fourth Amendment that they appear willing
to tolerate red states using financial transactions to track women who have abortions,
a major concern after the Supreme Court struck down federal abortion rights.”
” That's the impression from hearing Thursday of the House Judiciary Committee's Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee
on alleged collusion between the federal government and banks for politically motivated surveillance in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. “
” Committee Republicans released an interim staff report Wednesday night documenting meetings among federal agencies and large financial institutions
to discuss "voluntarily" sharing customer information without a warrant or notification to customers under laws including the Bank Secrecy Act. ..”
( My Opinion) : Ah ! The China model to assure conformity
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