Crime Federal Government Flagged Transactions Using Terms like "MAGA" and "TRUMP" for Financial Institutions

[White Whale]

Federal Government Flagged Transactions Using Terms like "MAGA" and "TRUMP" for Financial Institutions

WASHINGTON, D.C. – New

judiciary.house.gov

'Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’

The Treasury Department asked banks to search and filter customer transactions for terms like “MAGA" and “Trump" as part of its probe into Jan. 6, the House Judiciary Committee revealed.

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Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’​

One bank allegedly handed over information to FBI 'voluntarily and without any legal process​

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."

The materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like "Trump" and "MAGA" to "search Zelle payment messages" as well as a "prior FinCEN analysis" of "Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators."

"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.

Jordan and the committee are requesting Bishoff appear for a transcribed interview on the matter, saying he may "possess information necessary for our oversight."

Get ready for a a social credit system. They don't want buying Bibles shopping at Bass Pro Shop and supporting Trump.

 

[Yorick]

It’s reassuring to know that the federal government gives that same level of attention and surveillance to subversive groups like antifa and BLM not to mention the multitude of pedophiles out there as well.

 

[KOPPE]

while we at it, let's deport the trump voters to Russia, no liberal constitution or any of that bs.
they would love it there.

 

[Confucamus]

It’s reassuring to know that the federal government gives that same level of attention and surveillance to subversive groups like antifa and BLM not to mention the multitude of pedophiles out there as well.

Political slogans are the real danger!

 

[Mr Holmes]

Is this some of the muh fascism I keep hearing the left squeal about?

Let me guess, this is (D)ifferent.

 

[ShadowRun]

Censorship and fascist .. no it can’t be

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

The left always does what they accuse others of doing.

 

[HereticBD]

Bu-bu-but, Trump is the real authoritarian threat!

 

[LangfordBarrow]

It’s reassuring to know that the federal government gives that same level of attention and surveillance to subversive groups like antifa and BLM not to mention the multitude of pedophiles out there as well.

If they attack the Capitol they will...

 

[Yorick]

You mean the Capitol Tours offered?

 

[Cajun]

Just another reason noone trusts the govt...

 

[LangfordBarrow]

You mean the Capitol Tours offered?

I don't know, you can play it off as a Selfie Stroll or a Capitol Tour, but there was real sedition with real ringleaders. It's not about "It would never have worked" it's about "It never should have been attempted". Even the pawns should be made an example of to discourage this type of thing from happening again. And I do know most of the people there didn't commit any crimes but even the ones that just trespassed should be charged with misdemeanors.

 

[Copper Burner]

while we at it, let's deport the trump voters to Russia, no liberal constitution or any of that bs.
they would love it there.

Who would build all the homes and fix bridges in the United States? What about all of the welders, loggers, journeyman electricians? I can guarantee you that most all of those type of people (real men) are Trump supporters.

Lol at the thought of pussy liberals trying to do these types of jobs of Trump people left the country. America would crumble and fast.

 

[White Whale]

The weaponization of the Federal government against American citizens for buying things like a Bible should outrage everyone but the left defends this crap.

 

[Siver!]

Federal Government Flagged Transactions Using Terms like "MAGA" and "TRUMP" for Financial Institutions

WASHINGTON, D.C. – New

judiciary.house.gov

'Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’

The Treasury Department asked banks to search and filter customer transactions for terms like “MAGA" and “Trump" as part of its probe into Jan. 6, the House Judiciary Committee revealed.

www.foxnews.com

Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’​

One bank allegedly handed over information to FBI 'voluntarily and without any legal process​

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."

The materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like "Trump" and "MAGA" to "search Zelle payment messages" as well as a "prior FinCEN analysis" of "Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators."

"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.

Jordan and the committee are requesting Bishoff appear for a transcribed interview on the matter, saying he may "possess information necessary for our oversight."

Get ready for a a social credit system. They don't want buying Bibles shopping at Bass Pro Shop and supporting Trump.

"They're all against us, we need to vote for a billionaire!"

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

while we at it, let's deport the trump voters to Russia, no liberal constitution or any of that bs.
they would love it there.

Well at least you're not calling for killing them all any more. You've kind of learned your lesson sort of.

 

[White Whale]

If they attack the Capitol they will...

They burned a historic Washington DC church surrounded the White House burning other things.

 

[Mr Holmes]

I don't know, you can play it off as a Selfie Stroll or a Capitol Tour, but there was real sedition with real ringleaders. It's not about "It would never have worked" it's about "It never should have been attempted". Even the pawns should be made an example of to discourage this type of thing from happening again. And I do know most of the people there didn't commit any crimes but even the ones that just trespassed should be charged with misdemeanors.

And that justifies the level of encroachment by the government?

 

[LangfordBarrow]

They burned a historic Washington DC church surrounded the White House burning other things.

First of all is who did that? Who were the ringleaders and where's the evidence of their plans? Secondly there is a great distinction with the seditious element. That riot was designed to bully Pence into accepting fraudulent electors and to interfere in the peaceful transfer of power to Biden.

 

[LangfordBarrow]

And that justifies the level of encroachment by the government?

Well I haven't read the details so can't comment on how much encroachment there was. Have the courts ruled against these requests anywhere? To be honest these MAGA House goons have disseminated enough hand picked data regarding Joe and Hunter, that has not even been enough to determine a crime they can investigate, that I'm initially skeptical of this report not being just another red herring.