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Matt Gaetz Introduces Bill to Shut Down USPS's Covert Spy Program
Western Journal ^ | August 18, 2023 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 08/19/2023 5:56:09 AM PDT by cuz1961

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has introduced a bill to shut down the Internet Covert Operations Program, a domestic surveillance operation run by the law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service...

...“The Postal Service should be focused on delivering the mail on time and on budget, not running a covert surveillance program to monitor political behavior on social media,” Gaetz said in a statement...

... “As the dangers of government surveillance and targeting become ever the more clear, especially to conservatives, Congress must immediately abolish this program,” the congressman said at the time

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(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


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KEYWORDS: civilrights; federal; icop; socialmedia; spying; surveillance; uspis; usps
Well well well.

Wonder if the narrative cubicle has any of these glowies ...

...agitating for product.

Looking to score points and maybe a doughnut bonus.

/-)

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1 posted on 08/19/2023 5:56:09 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Protecting children from terrorists is what it is all about no doubt.

I recently discovered that our school district has had 8 foot high fencing installed around all of the schools along with locked gates.

All thanks to the federal government giving away fun buks to anyone that will sign their freedoms away.


2 posted on 08/19/2023 6:14:43 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: cuz1961

The Postal office just raised their price of forever stamps, $0.66 forever (till the next increase).


3 posted on 08/19/2023 6:24:56 AM PDT by matthew fuller (The whole Western world needs Trump leadership.” Nigel Farage, Newsmax, 07/31/2023.)
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To: cuz1961

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4 posted on 08/19/2023 6:37:40 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: cuz1961; All

Postmen see who gets Trump mailings. Some mailings are more than letters: a Trump coin , pen, T-shirt or cap I have received could have alerted a postman that I’m a contributor, not just a registered voter.

Couple that knowledge with an FBI WIFI signal showing up in the neighborhood makes me wonder if I’m being spied upon since I’ll contribute unflattering Biden comments regularly here and on other sites.

I’ve assumed there are far too many of us to deploy FBI WIFI spies to neighborhoods, but I put nothing past them. And the occasional display of an FBI WIFI signal that pops up on my WIFI status window on my laptop does raise questions. Along with the unmarked white van parked down the street.

Anyone have similar experiences ?


5 posted on 08/19/2023 6:52:16 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: cuz1961
Radio-based links are not private; anyone with a bit of moderately-priced gear can monitor what you do. The government has been working for decades to spike development on truly effective crypto to keep the cost of monitoring down.

That's why my house has a lot of Ethernet Gigabit four-pair connecting everything to a non-WiFi edge router. Besides, radio spectrum is shared, so your neighbor's streaming habits can reduce your speed on the Internet.

6 posted on 08/19/2023 7:06:18 AM PDT by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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To: chiller

I assumed the available locked Wi-Fi name was someone’s idea of a joke..

..and aren’t they and white Mercedes vans with black windows common ?

/-)


7 posted on 08/19/2023 7:09:02 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

Shut it down and they will go and work for the FBI. Guaranteed.


8 posted on 08/19/2023 7:12:57 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: asinclair

Radio-based links are not private; anyone with a bit of moderately-priced gear can monitor what you do. The government has been working for decades to

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Funny,, I don’t remember posting any comment about radio based links and privacy before your post /-). AND the article doesn’t mention radio anything either,,

you wouldn’t be trying to divert the point of the article or Matt’s concern would you ?

So let me post another excerpt

.... a March 16, 2021, government bulletin, marked as “law enforcement sensitive,” said the program was working to monitor “right-leaning” internet sites for possible domestic terrorism....

Hmmmm doughnuts !!!


9 posted on 08/19/2023 7:17:18 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

USPS was heavily involved in the 2020 steal.


10 posted on 08/19/2023 7:28:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: cuz1961

someone’s idea of a joke..

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But I haven’t imagined any of that kind of stuff for quite awhile now.


11 posted on 08/19/2023 7:38:32 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: MayflowerMadam

Check


12 posted on 08/19/2023 8:12:26 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: cuz1961

Uses takes a picture of every piece of mail you receive. You can see it ever morning online.

And I imagine the information is kept forever


13 posted on 08/19/2023 8:31:55 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: asinclair

You do have valid observations , so I should give you the benefit of the doubt .

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trying to divert the point of the article happened on the mike Lindell WMD thread

In one breath they said any cell phone can do what his WMD does

In the next breath they claimed it was probably illegal

So I guess all our cell phones were supposedly probably illegal..

Smh.

And who doesn’t like doughnuts !

/-)

I do.


14 posted on 08/19/2023 8:39:13 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

But if they can’t spy on us, how will they control us?


15 posted on 08/19/2023 11:31:53 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: cuz1961

USPS: The people in charge of trafficking ballots.


16 posted on 08/19/2023 11:49:09 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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