U.S. House of Representatives

House report: how federal law enforcement commandeered financial institutions to spy on Americans (2024)

Report · written March 2024 · released 9 March 2024

Why this matters

A 2024 House Judiciary subcommittee staff report alleging that federal agencies used banks' suspicious-activity tools to search customer transactions after January 6 using broad keywords. It is a partisan document, but it reproduces internal bank and agency emails. Primary material on financial surveillance that rarely gets discussed.

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https://publicintelligence.net/us-house-financial-surveillance-report/

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Watching the Watchers

2024: the bank-records front.

Cite

U.S. House of Representatives. "House report: how federal law enforcement commandeered financial institutions to spy on Americans (2024)." March 2024. Released 9 March 2024. https://publicintelligence.net/us-house-financial-surveillance-report/ (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0145).

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