Outrage as Biden administration admits surveilling Americans' private financial transactions for words like 'MAGA' 'Trump' and 'Kamala' in wake of Jan. 6 riots...with people buying BIBLES on top of their watchlist

Daily Mail ^ | 2/09/24 | Kamal Sultan

[Libloather]

The Biden Administration has admitted to surveilling the private financial transactions of Americans for words including 'MAGA', 'Trump' and 'Kamala' following the January 6 riots.

Federal investigators in the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) instructed banks to comb through records to look for 'extremists'.

A letter from the Treasury Department, seen by Fox News, was sent to Senator Tim Scott on Friday which states 'Exchange events' began 'shortly after January 6 under the prior Administration'.

It said it 'included terms such as "antifa," "MAGA," "Trump," "Biden," "Kamala," "Schumer," and "Pelosi."'

The federal government was specifically 'watching' Trump supporters and Americans who frequent outdoor stores such as Cabela's, Dick's Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops, and also those who purchased religious texts, such as a Bible.

The Treasury Department letter signifies the first time the Biden Administration has confirmed the use of keywords being searched for by investigators over the January 6 riot.

It was signed by Acting Assistant Secretary Corey Tellez and was in response to a letter sent by Scott, who is on the Senate Banking Committee, to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding answers.

Scott claimed the surveillance 'represents a flagrant violation of Americans’ privacy and the improper targeting of U.S. citizens for exercising their constitutional rights without due process.'

The Republican politician had previously voted for the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which allowed the FinCEN Exchange program to share data between law enforcement and financial institutions in a bid to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing.

FinCEN handed materials to banks which suggested they search and filter private finance records using keywords and search terms.

This was to help law enforcement find people of interest ahead of Biden's January 20 2021 inauguration and after the January 6 riots.

[4yearlurker]

Just go to a Saint Vincent DePaul store for a Bible. They have lots of them and the price is a donation. Whatever you want to pay.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

President Trump should start holding rallies at Cabela’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops.

[Colt1851Navy]

Spit

[neverevergiveup]

What should happen, but won't, is that every single public official, and all in public office, should be financially investigated and required to document how they obtained every single penny and every single possession they have obtained since starting in government.

Those for whom things don't add up should be prosecuted, stripped of everything they can't account for, and jailed if found guilty. Only then will we have our Consitutional Republic back. Only then will those who seek office or government employment be appropriately afraid to screw over the American citizenry.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In England, the rights to the KJV bible are vested in the Crown. cum privilegio.
Yet, you can be arrested in Britain for reading it aloud in public.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Just get one free from the Gideons or go to a second hand store. they often have donated bibles free.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The way the democrats are leading the US today we may need lots of “BEECHER’S BIBLES” in the future.

[bk1000]

“BEECHER’S BIBLES”

Wasn’t familiar with that. Thanks!

[Big Red Badger]

and pay cash.

[cgbg]

You are an “extremist” if you are not an obedient Democratic sheeple.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Kamala because they wanted that pipe bomb to go off.

[abigkahuna]

I wonder what they will think of moi—purchasing 82-43 toroids, 26g magnet wire, and cut-away Bnc’s.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

and pay cash.

They are working toward eliminating cash.

[BozoTexino]

If you like this, you’ll love the new Corporate Transparency Act that just went into effect to snoop on small businesses with up to a $10,000 fine for non-compliance.

[Elsie]

I'll just go NUCLEAR on them!!!

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[Elsie]

Or Goodwill

or hotel/motel

[Elsie]

You sure?

It’s public domain here.

[Elsie]

I see what you are doing here. the chipmunk has arrived.

The lettuce is not wilted.

[Elsie]

I need another set of one-time pads.

Down to my last three.

I’d call directly, but Mallory may be listening.

[Elsie]

https://www.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/small-business-corporate-transparency-act