A brand new report by the Home Judiciary Committee uncovered how greater than 14,000 federal workers accesses the personal monetary information for Individuals over 3,000,000 instances.
The Committee and Choose Subcommittee launched this investigation into government-led monetary surveillance after a whistleblower disclosed that following the occasions of January 6, 2021, Financial institution of America (BoA), voluntarily and with out authorized course of, offered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with a listing of names of all people who used a BoA credit score or debit card within the Washington, D.C. area round that point.
From the report: “The Committee and Choose Subcommittee launched an interim report revealing that federal legislation enforcement had used sweeping search phrases like “MAGA” and “TRUMP” to focus on Individuals and even handled purchases of non secular texts or firearms as indicators of “extremism.”
The committee discovered how federal legislation enforcement derisively considered Americans—treating Individuals who expressed opposition to firearm laws, open borders,
COVID-19 lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the “deep state” as potential home terrorists.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy might launch their DOGE initiative to chop authorities spending by firing the 14,000 federal workers who have been illegally focusing on conservatives and Trump supporters!
The Weaponization Committee printed a video on X explaining the outcomes of the investigation. This could concern all Individuals.
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Right here is the complete report by the Home Judiciary Committee…
“Monetary Surveilance in america: How the Federal Authorities weaponized the Financial institution Secrecy Act to spy on Individuals”
The Daily Mail reported:
The Home Judiciary Choose Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Authorities launched its damning findings that banks focused Individuals supportive of President-elect Donald Trump.
‘The federal authorities is spying in your checking account,’ the Republican-led panel posted in a video on X summarizing its 47-page report.
‘The federal authorities has conditioned monetary establishments to work for them,’ one other alarming slide on the video reads.
What the video seeks to clarify is the complicated and convoluted course of through which main monetary corporations, like Financial institution of America, Wells Fargo, Chase and extra have all handed over their buyer’s information to the federal government without spending a dime.
‘The subsequent time you swipe your [bank or credit] card know that somebody could also be watching,’ the subcommittee video eerily provides.
This information can embody the situation, date and outline of transactions, making it straightforward for the federal government to compile an understanding of the place folks go, what they purchase and what actions they spend their time on.
After receiving this information, the FBI created an inner portal, the place workers might search these sometimes personal transactions and profiles might then be made on particular person residents of concern, like those that have shopped at Cabela’s or bought a Bible, the panel claims.
Over 14,000 federal workers accessed that delicate monetary information in 2023 throughout which the subcommittee claims 3.3 million ‘warrantless searches’ have been made.
