Now, just imagine it was the Trump administration doing this: how would the mostly Democrat voting news agencies cover this? Would Congressional Democrats be demanding impeachment within a day?
Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like “MAGA” and “Trump” as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of “religious texts” could indicate “extremism,” the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, Bass Pro Shops and more.
The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been conducting oversight of federal law enforcement’s “receipt of information about American citizens without legal process and its engagement with the private sector.”
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said the documents obtained by the committee indicate that after Jan. 6, 2021, the Treasury Department’s Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, distributed materials to financial institutions that outlined “typologies” of “various persons of interest” and provided the banks with “suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement.”
Hmm, I purchase stuff at Dicks, Cabela’s, and Bass Pro Shops.
“According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of ‘extremism’ indicators that include ‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose,’ or ‘the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views,’” Jordan detailed in a letter to the former director of FinCEN, Noah Bishoff, a career employee.
“In other words, FinCEN used large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression,” Jordan wrote.
The problem here is, what happens? Who gets fired? Who gets sued? Does anyone pay a price for this outrageous and un-Constitutional program? Does anyone go to jail? Simply holding hearings is not enough when government goes off the rails. The government was spying on U.S. citizens for no reason. Was there even a blanket warrant?
Lol
Teach they were looking at the accounts if your “mostly peaceful tourists” who were identified as insurrecting without a permit on Jan 6.
Remember these mostly peaceful tourists were equipping themselves with bear spray, hatchet, rope, zip ties baseball bats knives. Investigators may? Have been trying to determine when/why these items had been purchased. Multiple people were also convicted of possession of firearms on the Capital grounds.
Teach do you think the 2nd Amendment covers anyone wanting to bring firearms anywhere they wish? Or do you think those guns should be grabbed from citizens ?
I bought another crossbow from Bass Pro recently!! And lots of fishing tackle for a Canada trip from them!! All by credit card!! I’m on their frigging mailing list!
I was at a local Bass Pro not long ago with a good friend who was buying a new electric side-by-side. They have me on video! ZOMG.
Recently had TSA preclearance interview – fingerprinted, photographed, questioned… They got me.
And I type MAGA all the damn time!! I might be on the Extremist List. I also search rifle ads, e.g., 6.5mm Creedmoor.
I also visit white nationalist extremist sites like this one, the Pudendum etc.
I’ll be waiting for the knock on the door… after Big Donnie is elected.
The TTS from Rimjob is strong this morning.
Bwaha! Lolgfy! Fatso
Interesting how our socialist from St Louis makes light of stuff that would have had him screaming his head off had this stuff taken place under President Trump.
Mindless speculation from the fascist from Fayette…
Part of my flippant attitude is associated with Rep Gym Jordan prosecuting the story.
Should the government investigate the Jan 6 insurrection?
The House did investigate the Capitol kerfuffle, so your question is moot. What went uninvestigated was the whole summer of rioting spawned by Antifa and BLM after the unfortunate death-while-resisting-arrest of the methamphetamine-and-fentanyl-addled, previously convicted felon, George Floyd.
And hundreds of violent offenders from Jan6 are still running free, likely plotting the next revolt.
The esteemed Mr Dowd wrote:
Hundreds? Your use of the plural means that you are specifying at least in the vicinity of 200 on the low side, and, in theory, slightly under around 950.
Violent? They did a bit of property damage, though certainly not as much as the Mostly Peaceful Protesters™ of the Summer of Hate, who burned and looted their way through several months of rioting, but the killed no one and injured only a few.
H, this violates my ‘arguing with idiots policy’ but, have you ever actually read the U.S. Constitution? Brandon’s actions violate so many statutes and principals.
Do you wish to live as a free person in a constitutional republic or as a subject in a monarchy or socialist/communist/nazi/facist regime?
I choose living as a free person in a our constitutional republic.
Brandon blatantly trying to buy votes with taxpayers money.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-bails-74k-student-loan-borrowers-5-billion-canceled-debt
The benevolence of this guy!
Our distinguished host asked:
Yes! The Capitol kerfufflers go to jail! The “Proud Boys” go to jail!
The Mostly Peaceful Protesters™ during 2020’s summer of hate? Nope, they’re just fine, thank you very much.