The bible bit was supposition but I agree there is no reason why terms such as MAGA should be flagged. That bothers me greatly and this administration needs to explain itself.
And as we have seen these past years, that will never happen. KJP will stand there and blame Republicans, Biden will ignore it entirely as he slurps another milkshake, and the enforcement elites will double down, all while sycophants will continue with the whole ‘no biggie, the banks did it on their own’.
Not yet.
Right now it’s just a list of people who did any banking in DC that week.
No doubt it will be cross-referenced with something (such as being a southerner, being an outspoke conservative etc…) and people on the remaining list
will not be given an ice cream sundae.
Well, you are correct that we do not know what the list is for.
For fun, we can imagine what the list is for,
but in honesty, we do not know what the Joe Biden Justice Department
will do with a list of MAGA-related people who visited DC from out of state around Jan 6.
Maybe the DoJ wants to give them all $1 million each, right?
Maybe DoJ is hoping they will testify “The Capital police politely escorted us around and tried to open doors for us” so DoJ can overturn the earlier verdicts
We really don’t know what Joe Biden’s DoJ will do with this list.
Heck it could be a friends list, right?
Right or it could be an abuse of power that should have been submitted for judicial review. That would be a constitutional violation
But no it has to be something wicked. It has to be. Because a democrat is doing it. I really recommend for you guys rival Harry Turtledovr with your fervent imaginations.
Well, Joe Biden isn’t personally doing anything. But the Justice Department is probably trying to identify people who broke into the Capitol. Kind of like watching store security footage.
According to the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which falls under the jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee, federal law enforcement agencies partnered with a number of financial institutions to flag transactions with the terms “MAGA,” “Trump” and more. They also monitored transactions at stores like Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shop. Other purchases linked to religious texts, like Christian bibles, were flagged under the guise of “preventing extremism.”
" …while Jan. 6, 2021, was the “impetus” for the queries and searches, none of the documents the committee has obtained reveal any specific time frames or limitations for banks searching customer transactions with the terms. The source said the federal government used the information for investigations beyond Jan. 6."
The incident happened at the Capital. No one’s bank records are stored, let alone controlled by the Capital staff. You want to look at someone’s bank and purchase records, at a private business, you go to the court and present the government’s probable cause to see that person’s bank and purchase records. And all asking a company, or individual, outside of government, to serve as a whiting cut out and serve as the source of the information does is make that individual into an agent of the government.