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Title: Bank of America gave private info to FBI in Capitol-riot probe
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URL Source: https://www.wnd.com/2021/02/bank-am ... e-info-fbi-capitol-riot-probe/
Published: Feb 6, 2021
Author: Art Moore
Post Date: 2021-02-06 11:47:34 by Ada
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'You're being treated like a member of al-Qaida'

The Bank of America has acknowledged it secretly turned over to federal investigators the private financial information of customers who made purchases in and around Washington, D.C., at the time of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

The bank, the nation's second largest, identified a total of 211 customers who met certain "thresholds of interest" in the probe, according to an investigation by Fox News' Tucker Carlson reported Thursday. The feds, he said, were looking for people who used a bank card for hotel stays, meals and transportation.

Responding to a request for comment, Bank of America insisted it was acting in compliance with the law.

"We don’t comment on our communications with law enforcement. All banks have responsibilities under federal law to cooperate with law enforcement inquiries in full compliance with the law," the statement said.

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Carlson noted there's been "an enormous amount of talk in the last month about violent extremism and the dangerous people who've embraced it."

The talk is nonstop on cable news but also comes from elected officials, leaders of federal law enforcement, intelligence agencies and the Pentagon.

This week, the new defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, ordered the U.S. military to "stand down" in an effort to rid the ranks of "racists and extremists."

Carlson, arguing that to root out a problem you have to know what it is, pointed out that none "of these newly energized and highly empowered extremist-hunters had told us what exactly what an extremist is."

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Carlson charged that Bank of America is effectively acting as an intelligence agency without informing its customers, treating them like they are members of al-Qaida.

After the Jan. 6 riot, he said, the bank rooted through the private records of Americans who had committed no crime but fit a certain profile.

The profile:

1) Customers confirmed as transacting, either through bank account debit card or credit card, purchases in Washington, D.C. between January 5 and January 6.

2) Purchases made for Hotels, AirBnB, RSVPs in Washington, Virginia or Maryland after January 6.

3) Any purchase of weapons or at a weapons-related merchant between January 7 and their upcoming suspected stay in D.C. area around Inauguration Day.

4) Airline related purchases since January 6

Carlson noted the profie is "remarkably broad — any purchases of anything in the city of Washington, D.C. Any overnight stay anywhere in a three-state area, spanning hundreds of miles. Any purchase, not simply of legal firearms, but instead anything bought from a quote, 'weapons-related merchant,' T-shirts included. And then, any 'airline related purchases.' To anywhere. To Omaha, or Thailand."

Bank of America identified a total of 211 customers who met these "thresholds of interest." Federal investigators then interviewed at least one of the unsuspecting customers, Carlson said, noting the person ultimately was cleared.

"Imagine if you were that person," he said. "The FBI hauls you in for questioning in a terror investigation, not because you’ve done anything suspicious. You haven't. You brought plane tickers and visited your country’s capital. You thought you could do that. You thought it was your country."

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Effectively, he said, "you're being treated like a member of al- Qaida."

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2021-02-06   12:56:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ada (#0)

I am not taking BofA side but under the Patriot Act 1 and 2, the government has the right to obtain this info. I would guess that other banks are doing the same thing, Carlson is just picking on BofA because they did not back Carlson lord and god Trump

Darkwing  posted on  2021-02-06   15:32:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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