A brand new report by the Home Judiciary Committee uncovered how greater than 14,000 federal workers accesses the non-public monetary knowledge 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, supplied the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with an inventory 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 regulation 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 regulation 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 may launch their DOGE initiative to chop authorities spending by firing the 14,000 federal workers who had been illegally concentrating on conservatives and Trump supporters!
The Weaponization Committee revealed a video on X explaining the outcomes of the investigation. This could concern all Individuals.
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Right here is the total 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 Every day 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 elucidate is the advanced and convoluted course of during which main monetary companies, like Financial institution of America, Wells Fargo, Chase and extra have all handed over their buyer’s knowledge to the federal government at no cost.
‘The subsequent time you swipe your [bank or credit] card know that somebody could also be watching,’ the subcommittee video eerily provides.
This knowledge can embrace the placement, date and outline of transactions, making it straightforward for the federal government to compile an understanding of the place individuals go, what they purchase and what actions they spend their time on.
After receiving this knowledge, the FBI created an inner portal, the place workers may search these sometimes non-public transactions and profiles may 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 knowledge in 2023 throughout which the subcommittee claims 3.3 million ‘warrantless searches’ had been made.
