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Fourth Amendment concerns via government and bank relationships getting investigated

 


There should be absolutely no person wanting to have their financial transaction part of government databases, but that is happening. Several banking corporations are freely giving private information to the government without a warrant or other legal documentation. That is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment, but this government, no matter what party is in charge, thinks that Constitutional rights are a suggestion, nothing more. Here is some of what is happening via a House Judiciary Committee investigation they are doing.

Yellen Letter

Here, via the Judiciary Committee site, is part of theletter they sent to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government are continuing to conduct oversight of financial surveillance of American citizens, including the disclosure of private financial records to federal authorities without legal process. As part of its oversight, the Committee and Select Subcommittee received testimony indicating that various financial institutions, in addition to Bank of America (BoA), filed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in the weeks following January 6, 2021, at the request of and in coordination with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). To assist with our oversight, we request that you provide us with these SARs and any related filings, including the supporting documentation.

On February 16, 2024, we requested that you produce a SAR filed by BoA on January 17, 2021. On March 28, 2024, the Treasury Department (Department) made the SAR available to the Committee for an in camera review. The Committee’s and Select Subcommittee’s review of that SAR revealed that BoA shared the information of 211 individuals with federal law enforcement according to certain “thresholds” provided by the FBI and included references to “supporting documentation” reflecting the customer relationships identified by the SAR. The Department stated that it was not in possession of the supporting documentation and, therefore, Committee staff could not review its details.

On April 9, 2024, the Committee conducted a transcribed interview with the FBI’s former financial sector liaison, Peter Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan testified that following the events of January 6, 2021, he worked with FinCEN and BoA to “narrow” the “focus” of financial institutions towards specific “fact-based patterns” used to create transaction “thresholds.” Mr. Sullivan subsequently emailed these thresholds to BoA with the “expectation” that the FBI would “review any information that met their thresholds for sharing the information back to law enforcement.” Indeed, after BoA filed the January 2021 SAR with the Department, a BoA executive also sent the filing directly to Mr. Sullivan who subsequently reviewed the SAR and its supporting documentation, which identified 211 individuals’ information.

Following his review of the SAR materials, Mr. Sullivan asked BoA to identify customers that had also made “weapons-related transactions” after January 6, 2021, and BoA identified four individuals. Based on these additional criteria, the FBI conducted “criminal background queries” into these individuals and sent “four Guardians out to three field offices” for further investigation. The Guardian Program is a process in which the FBI shares information with partnered law enforcement entities to track potential threats and suspicious activity. In this case, once the Guardian assessments were completed and shared, the BoA SAR and its supporting documentation were subsequently uploaded to the “[Washington Field Office] case file” and the office then sent out “a number of leads.” However, according to Steve Jensen, the then-Section Chief of the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Operations Section, he “pull[ed]” the “leads” back because they “lacked allegations of federal criminal conduct.” FBI Director Chris Wray similarly stated that this information was later “recalled.”

Bank Letters

Here, also via the Committee site, is the start of theletters to the banks, with this being for Standard Chartered Bank USA.

After receiving documents and information from several entities, the Committee and Select Subcommittee learned that the financial surveillance occurring in the United States is much broader than the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) simply requesting, without any legal process, a list of customers’ transactions from Bank of America. On March 6, 2024, the Committee and Select Subcommittee released an interim staff report detailing its findings to date on how federal law enforcement is using private banks to pry into the private transactions of American customers. That report highlighted how, following January 6, 2021, federal law enforcement commandeered financial institutions’ databases, sought to treat sweeping classes of otherwise lawful transactions as potentially “suspicious,” and profiled Americans using Merchant Category Codes (MCCs), “typologies,” and “indicators” that treated protected political and religious expression as indicative of domestic violent extremism.

This is something that everyone should pay attention to, because simple actions are being considered criminal in this nation now. They weaponized the banks against gun ownership and this shows they can do so much more. There needs to be a line drawn in the sand, as this is the very definition of tyranny and has people in their sights, even if they are innocent of nothing more than exercising their freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.

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