Deep State Data Grab

Kudos to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan! He continues to do outstanding work exposing the Deep State’s threat to our liberty. Here’s the latest.

We told you before how Bank of America surrendered the financial information of many customers at the FBI’s “request” following the January 6^th riot on Capitol Hill. The scandal is much bigger.

Chairman Jordan and House Republicans investigating the weaponization of government have discovered that a Treasury Department office known as FinCEN, which tracks terrorists and money laundering groups, was unleashed on the American people under the guise of investigating January 6^th.

This Treasury office went to multiple banks and demanded the financial information of customers based on a very long list of key search terms. What were the banks told to look for?

The search terms included words like “Trump,” “MAGA,” “religious texts” (that would include the Bible), and subscriptions to “media containing extremist views.” Well, who defines what’s extreme? (See below.)

Several sporting goods stores, like Bass Pro and Cabela’s, were on the list. The banks were also instructed to search for certain merchant codes to identify purchases, including firearms.

So, anyone exercising their First Amendment rights by buying a Bible and anyone exercising their Second Amendment rights at Bass Pro in January of 2021 may have been swept up in this massive Deep State data grab.

No court would ever approve such a broad search warrant! This is the exact opposite of what search warrants are supposed to be.

It’s the stuff of totalitarianism!

Some are suggesting that the banks “voluntarily complied” with the government’s “request.” The government never merely “requests” anything. This is the same tactic the FBI used to get social media companies to suppress free speech and information about COVID.

The FBI “requested” that Facebook and Twitter suppress “Russian disinformation” about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Of course, we now know that the FBI had Hunter’s laptop and knew it was real the year before. They lied about it being “Russian disinformation.” The FBI suppressed the truth, hoping to “rig” the 2020 election!

Every American ought to be furious about this kind of government abuse, especially given the totalitarian impulses of the neo-Marxist left.