Feds Asked Banks to Conduct Warrantless Searches for Transactions Mentioning "MAGA" or "Trump;" Flagged Religious Texts as "Possible Extremism"

The Ham-and-Eggers at the FBI strike again.

So they're violating the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments.

To Save Democracy.

They're Great Americans.

Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism," the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more.

The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been conducting oversight of federal law enforcement's "receipt of information about American citizens without legal process and its engagement with the private sector."

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said the documents obtained by the committee indicate that after Jan. 6, 2021, the Treasury Department's Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, distributed materials to financial institutions that outlined "typologies" of "various persons of interest" and provided the banks with "suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement."

The 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."

"According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of 'extremism' indicators that include 'transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose,' or 'the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views,'" Jordan detailed in a letter to the former director of FinCEN, Noah Bishoff, a career employee.

Just going to go out on a limb here: "Religious texts" stating that Allah is great would not be the sort of texts that the FBI would be allowed to flag for warrantless searches, right?

No, they wouldn't. My friend Rich Higgins talked a lot about the Obama Administration inviting in Muslim Brotherhood members to advise and veto any instruction about what kinds of religious slogans jihadists would use.

That was protected religious expression which is forbidden to be used for investigatory purposes.

But your Gutter Religion, Christians? It's open season on you.

Some people have religious liberty, other people are slaves.

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