Biden Treasury Admits Giving Banks Terms Like ‘MAGA’ for Private Bank Transaction Searches
Other terms and words included Schumer, Pelosi, ANTIFA, and storm the Capitol.
The Treasury Department admitted to Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott that it gave banks a list of political terms to search in private bank transactions.
Acting Assistant Secretary Corey Tellez explained how the searches began after January 6, 2021:
FinCEN [Financial Crimes Enforcement Network] provided these typologies so that the participating banks could integrate this information into their AML/CFT programs to the extent they found it helpful. Banks consider a variety of factors and inputs as part of their AML/CFT [anti-money laundering] and efforts, including a bank’s existing knowledge of its customers and their histories and information about the nature and purpose of specific transactions. No one specific word or transaction code included in these typologies was designed to be used in isolation to “flag” or “target” any individuals. Rather, to the extent key words or phrases were suggested, it was expected they would be used alongside other factors and data that banks regularly analyze as part of their AML programs to detect and report suspicious activity. For example, a document distributed on January 15, 2021 suggested that banks could review payment messages for indications that an individual participated in the assault on the Capitol and included terms such as “antifa,” “MAGA,” “Trump,” “Biden,” “Kamala,” “Schumer,” and “Pelosi,” along with terms indicating an intent to do violence, such as “shoot,” “kill,” “murder” and “storm the Capitol.”
These people have a linguistic gift to word documents in a way that makes their actions honorable.
Scott demanded these answers from the Treasury:
“I write regarding recent reporting that the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) through its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) urged private financial institutions to surveil customers’ transaction-level data using politically charged search terms, in order to flag certain customer profiles on behalf of Federal law enforcement,” Scott wrote in the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital. “These allegations, if true, represent a flagrant violation of Americans’ privacy and the improper targeting of U.S. citizens for exercising their constitutional rights without due process.”
However, Scott was one of the senators who “voted for the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which codified the FinCEN Exchange program to facilitate the sharing of data between law enforcement and financial institutions in an effort to combat crimes like money laundering and the financing of terrorism.”
The situation came to light when the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on Weaponization obtained documents as part of an investigation.
The documents show the government also suggested keywords like Cabela’s Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Bass Pro shops.
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If Trump is serious about undermining the ‘deep state’ then getting rid of all these sorts of post 9/11 powers granted to Intel agencies and LEO to conduct domestic surveillance to fight ‘terrorism’ or whatever other boogeyman of the moment would be a good place to start.
Tell that to Speaker Johnson.
Happy to do so, though the Speaker hasn’t had four years in his current office as Trump had as POTUS. Nor has the Speaker enjoyed a two year period where the POTUS the Senate Majority Leader and the HoR were all in GoP control.
We need to not only get rid of the Patriotic Act and any post 9-11 security regulation, but we need a drastic downsizing of the Federal government.
Start with ALL 3-letter agencies.
None of this could happen were it not for a blatantly partisan DOJ that prosecutes innocent parties and never the guilty. We lose the presidency in 2024, we’re cooked – saved for an act of God, and I’m not sure He would be inclined to intervene.
I’ve been waiting for his return… especially with all the satanic child abuse
Nothing like making a penis out of a child’s forearm and cutting their breasts off that says, “ you all blew it, it’s the end”….
Dear God, guess they have checked my back account.
I don’t trust winRed and wrote one check to Trump after all this lawfare crap
And I shop at Academy, bought several gift cards to places like Bass Pro for my Hunter SIL.
Unbelievable
It’s hilarious that they would mark Dick’s as they stopped selling guns and are very woke, maybe that was just to try to make it like they were t really targeting certain people.
I almost choked on that last sentence
The owner of Bass Pro also owns Cabelas and, if anything, would be praised by the Feds for screwing up Cabelas. Yep…Dick’s is the LAST place the Feds would need to look after they went woke. It’s obvious that the Feds know that their fundamental transformation of the country into a quasi-PRC state isn’t going to go over well. Their expedited population reduction schemes might be compromised.
It’s a problem there are too many people that can’t see a problem. It’s not that they are too many overall, but they are too many in places where they can easily abuse power and remain upstream of their havoc. The society they have given us is on the brink.
I actually think we have too many people in America
Like 40-50 million illegals
Would put us at about 280 million and I think that’s a good #
Right now all the farms, ranches are being carved up in Texas
There will be no wide open spaces to breathe anymore
Progress is not more people, it’s productive people living a good life, which includes large spaces for wildlife…
Properly constructed that’s not a bad argument to use v d/prog idiocy. Most of very same folks so adamant in shoot open borders are also pushing net zero.
It’s time to make them choose. We can have open borders or the immediate increase in demand for 1st world levels of power/fuel consumption for the additional millions coming into the USA and Western Europe. Can’t have both and be consistent.
One of my beliefs is that we need is an agency whose sole job is to police the other federal agencies a Federal Department of Internal Affairs. Give it it’s own investigators and prosecutors. Give the investigators the same investigative powers as FBI agents and make the prosecutors independent of the DOJ.
And please don’t bring up the toothless inspector generals who are limited in their investigative powers and have zero power to prosecute or force a prosecution.
…. With its leadership appointed by the opposition minority party. Might be described as an anti-matter, anti-swamp, negative-charge, anti-DOJ.
Perhaps even a full independent Cabinet position.
I can’t wait for Fuzzy’s next OMB column. Gotta stay focused on what is important.
omelettes, muffins , bacon ?
If they spent half as much time researching criminals as they do honest people there would be a lot less crime. On the other hand, trying to locate documents on 50 million undocumented criminals boggles the mind.
In related news, the Treasury Department has been renamed “The Ministry of Love.”
More to the point would have been HUNTER and BURISMA.
Consequences when Republicans/libertarians don’t read bills with creativity in mind (government/democrat expansion of regulation and intelligence gathering).
Remember when Ron Paul begged America not to adopt the reactionary Big Government ‘security’ policies in the aftermath of 9/11 because he warned – promised – that those same powers would be use to undermine political opponents and everyone called him Crazy Uncle Ron because of it?
Turns out he wasn’t crazy. Instead, he was eerily prescient.
The never-ending increase in the ability of governments to know about us things they have no right to know must be stopped. This won’t make us less safe than we are, it can only make us less safe than we might be. The additional safety comes at too high a price.
WHY NOT???
WE ALLOW for there to be a class of
“protected people” who are immune from prosecution given extra rights via taking away rights from others etc etc
SO WHY NOT then have an Unprotected class of people
I mean
we allow it
YOU vote for rinos
UNTIL AND UNLESS you raise the roof by stopping tax money from going to
Union run schools and illegals etc
WHY PRETEND THERE IS A LEGIT JUSTICE SYSTEM
WHY PRETEND THERE IS A LEGIT JUSTICE SYSTEM?
It fools the low info democrat voter.
The Apparatus regards the interior US as occupied territory to be administered for the benefit of other folks.
You knew this was where it was going when the “intelligence” overlords who worked occupied Iraq said out loud that “we want to know everything” about the surveillance system they were building in the US.
Out loud, in televised congressional testimony at the time.
We need to prosecute federal employees who violate the constitution. Federal employees who refuse to testify before congress should be fired.