redstate.com By Nick Arama
The House Judiciary GOP had some troubling questions they posed on X.
Shop at Bass Pro Shop recently?
How about Cabela’s?
Bought a bible?
If so, the federal government may be coming after YOU. https://t.co/NNRZboXRDr
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) January 17, 2024
“Shop at Bass Pro Shop recently? How about Cabela’s? Bought a bible? If so, the federal government may be coming after YOU.”
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan explained in a troubling letter to Noah Bishoff, the former Director of the Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in the Treasury Department.
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
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— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) January 17, 2024
FinCEN distributed materials to financial institutions that, among other things, outline the “typologies” of various persons of interest and provide financial institutions with suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement.’ These materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like “TRUMP” and “MAGA” to “search Zelle payment messages” as well as a “prior FinCEN analysis” of “Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators.”
They also looked at other things like “‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose” and “the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views…
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