Scott Blasts Biden Adm for Privacy Violations & Search of Bank Records for ‘Trump’ and ‘MAGA’
Federal government efforts to target individuals and entities is a blatant and egregious violation of our Constitution ~Sen. Tim Scott
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, wrote to the Biden administration on Friday, blasting them for their alleged “flagrant violation” of Americans’ privacy.
Scott wrote his letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director Andrea Gacki about reports that the Treasury Department provided materials to financial institutions instructing them to search and filter Americans’ banking information using “politically charged terms” such as “Trump,” “MAGA,” and other words. This includes terms that would indicate the legal purchase of a firearm, the purchase of religious books, and subscriptions to media containing “extremist views.”
We now know the federal government flagged terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP,” to financial institutions if Americans completed transactions using those terms.
What was also flagged? If you bought a religious text, like a BIBLE, or shopped at Bass Pro Shop. pic.twitter.com/jjRaVNItWz
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) January 17, 2024
The South Carolina senator said that these allegations represent an improper targeting of Americans in a manner eerily similar to the Obama administration’s “Operation Choke Point:”
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. According to recent news reports, Treasury provided materials to financial institutions instructing them to search and filter Americans’ transaction-level financial data using specific keywords, search terms, and particular merchant category codes…
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House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-OH) has subpoenaed Bank of America after major banks shared Americans’ private banking information to the FBI without legal process in Washington, DC, around January 6, 2021
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