Another Conspiracy Theory Proven Correct--Gov't Using Financial Institutions To Spy On Americans

Newsbusters reports "SPYING ON YOUR CASH: Explosive Report Exposes Gov’t-Financial Sector Collusion to Surveil Americans." Per the article:

    The House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a 36-page interim report March 6 outlining the extent of the “mass” government spying effort. “This financial surveillance was not predicated on any specific evidence of particularized criminal conduct and, even worse, it keyed on terms and specific transactions that concerned core political and religious expression protected by the Constitution,” the report stated. One document shared with financial institutions by federal law enforcement “noted that those Americans who expressed opposition to firearm regulations, open borders, COVID-19 lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the ‘deep state’ may be potential domestic terrorists,” despite them not having to be suspected of committing any specific crimes. The House report concluded that federal law enforcement used this Stasi-esque line of reasoning to “commandeer” financial institutions to conduct sweeping, Orwellian searches of Amercians’ financial data.

    The FBI and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) were both flagged as having multiple meetings with a litany of financial and fintech institutions, including Barclays, U.S. Bank, Charles Schwab, HSBC, Bank of America, PayPal, KeyBank, Standard Chartered, Western Union, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Santander, JPMorgan Chase, and MUFG. The purpose of these meetings were to coordinate strategies for the aforementioned institutions to “voluntarily” share private customer information with federal law enforcement “outside of normal legal processes.”

You can download a PDF of the report here.

• Flashback: "Obama’s CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies To Spy on Trump Campaign"--Real Clear Politics. The real reason for 5-eyes is not to better spy on foreign adversaries, but to allow intelligence agencies to sidestep prohibitions on domestic spying. 
• Related: "Is This What the Biden Admin Was Really After When It Raided Mar-a-Lago?"--PJ Media. The article relates that "Back in December, CNN reported that a binder 'containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed.'" It adds: "According to a report from Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag, the binder contains evidence of the CIA's efforts to spy on Trump and interfere in the 2016 election. And this binder is what the Biden administration was really after when they raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida."