Feds Asked Banks to Comb Customer Data for 'MAGA,' 'Trump' Terms

“The federal government asked financial institutions to rummage through customer data if terms such as "MAGA" or "Trump" were used in transactions, the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government revealed Wednesday, citing documents it obtained.

Transactions might also have been flagged by individuals who shopped at stores such as Cabela's or Dick's Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a Bible, the committee said in a news release.

"This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans' private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the FBI's respect for fundamental civil liberties," the committee said.

In a letter Wednesday to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee and the select subcommittee, said he is seeking a transcribed interview from Peter Sullivan, senior private sector partner for outreach in the Strategic Partner Engagement Section of the FBI…”






https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jim-jordan-fbi-christopher-wray/2024/01/17/id/1149988/







This is really scary. We had the executive branch and the FBI seeking info on private citizens through their banks. This goes against everything the constitution stands for. The FBI agents involved and their superiors should be penalized professionally for this and Biden/Garland impeached.

 

Why would Biden be impeached?

This happened on Trump's watch.

 

Political and religious expression is protected both as speech and the free exercise there of by the constitution. The secular progressive fascist thug Biden regime had no legal right to spy on we the people through our banks.

 

Vivek solution is much better. Disband the FBI. It's too politicized. Move the investigation to other smaller agencies with specific areas of interest instead of being one massive agency.

 

Your solution is to defund the police. Interesting.

 

The FBI is not the 'police', it has consistently undermined the civil liberties of the American People under the guise of protecting them. Disband the FBI, get rid of the FISA Court and return to the 4th Amendment, the way it was meant to be used.

 

Why do you want to protect criminals from law enforcement?

 

Read Anne Frank's diary, we don't want the FBI to have the power that it is claiming to have. Hell, we don't want ANY law enforcement agency to have that power.

 

Yes. The FBI is a federal police force.

Disbanding the FBI = defund the police.

 

Why do you want cow chicken toaster mushroom juice on the moon?

 

I don't see any issues here. MAGA Trump supporters have already proven themselves to have domestic terrorists in their ranks. The FBI is just doing their job.

 

No, his solution is to disband the FBI. Defunding is choking their abilities. The FBI should be put in the history books. No where in the constitution does it give the federal government the power to police. I am okay with this. Policing should be left up to the state.

 

So you and he agree on COMPLETELY defunding the federal police.

 

Yes. I would also defund many more federal programs. It’s obvious, specially now, that they are not a tool for the people but a tool for politics.

 

Isn't this what China does? How did Democrats put us in this hell??

 

Why do you want to allow FBI to become the US version of the KGB?

 

I thought that wanting to defund the police was a leftist idea. Where does that leave you?

 

Why do you support the surveillance state?

 

Where did I say that?

 

The police and the FBI are two different things but thanks for showing you have zero idea in the difference

 

LOL.... Thanks for playing.

 

The FBI is a federal police force. That you want to defund.

 

Funny, I thought it was clearly about defunding only the FBI and instead funding other LE agencies more...

 

lol - your surrender is noted.

 

That sounds exactly what people who called for defunding the police said. Defund the police and allocate the resources to a more appropriate agency.
Do you stand with them?