The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network sees little difference between cryptocurrency transactions that may be tied to Hamas and banking services for U.S. groups that advocate for religious liberty, immigration restrictions and a "watchful waiting" approach to pediatric gender confusion.
That's the impression from FinCEN's email to large banks and financial institutions including Western Union and PayPal, urging them to review a "hate group" report and "hate symbol" database by progressive activists in the context of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The House Judiciary Committee and its Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee published the Jan. 16, 2021 email in an interim staff report on federal law enforcement "commandeer[ing] financial institutions to spy on Americans."
They held a hearing last week on alleged collusion between big banks and the feds to surveil financial transactions without "any specific evidence of particularized criminal conduct," focused on political terms including "MAGA," purchases of "religious texts" and visits to gun retailers.
