Treasure Sec'y Yellin avoids anwering whether Biden Treasury Dept. asked banks to search private transactions

Big Brother is watching you, especially watching who you support politically and to which institutions you donate. 

When she was asked if the Treasury Department pressured banks and other financial institutions to spy on legal purchases for signs of "extremism" our illustrious Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen did a head fake and ducked the question, Fox News reported in not so many words. This was to be in part of an investigation into the January 6, 2021 events.

The banks were asked to filter legal purchases with terms such as "MAGA," "Trump," "Cabela's," "Bass Pro Shops," and "Dick's Sporting Goods." They were also warned that the sale of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism." 

Holy fishing atheists, Batman!

Jim Jordan (R-OH) the House Judiciary Committee Chair stated in a letter that after January 6, the Treasury Department’s Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN, aka Big Brother), sent banks outlines “typologies” of “various persons of interest” as well as “suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement.”

“According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of ‘extremism’ indicators that include ‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose,’ or ‘the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views,’” Jordan wrote to the former director of FinCEN. “In other words, FinCEN used large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression.”

Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) on Tuesday stated, “Increasingly, we are hearing the federal government is suggesting banks search private financial transactions using highly partisan political terms or check to see if customers made purchases that could be associated with legal sales of firearms or even religious texts.”

Wagner asked Yellen, “Has Treasury — including FinCEN or federal banking agencies like the Fed, FDIC, OCC — instructed financial institutions to search Americans’ legal transactions in attempts to surveil their purchases?”

“Well, we received the letter from you, I believe, on this topic, and we intend to investigate and to respond,” Yellen dodged.

“Have you instructed banks and financial institutions to provide this information?” Wagner pressed.

“Well, FinCEN, our job is to work with financial institutions to make sure —” Yellen replied in her grandmotherly voice.

“Are they instructing financial institutions to search Americans’ legal transactions in attempts to surveil their purchases?” Wagner reiterated.

“I promise a thorough look into everything,” Yellen lied.

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House Passes "Born-Alive" Abortion Bill

The Republican majority House, in one of its first acts under Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R), passed a bill Wednesday aimed at ensuring steps are taken by health providers to prevent the killing of infants born alive after an attempted abortion failed to destroy the life.

Conservatives and other supporters of human life at all ages, hailed the legislation while Democrats and other pro-abortion groups who likely vote Democrat, socialist or Communist, cast the bill as an attack on women’s reproductive rights in spite of the fact that the reproduction process began at conception. However, they say the bill is unnecessary since it's already illegal to kill infants who pass through the birth canal and leave their mother's body. But of course, we know that they are stalling for time as their long-range plans have been unfolding over the years as witnessed in: "safe, rare and legal" to once the baby is born and the baby "can be made comfortable while the mother and the doctor discuss what they want to do with 'it.'"

Only one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX), joined all voting GOP lawmakers to support the legislation because he actually does believe in the sanctity of life. 

The final tally was 220-210, with Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) voting “present” because he fears the wrath of God, and three spineless Republicans not voting.

Despite the win for Republicans in the House, the legislation probably won’t get far in the godless Democrat-led Senate.

The bill, called the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” establishes that health care practitioners who do not reasonably act to “preserve the life and health of the child” after an attempted abortion as they would any newborn face fines or up to five years imprisonment. The bill also outlines civil remedies for the mother of an abortion survivor. 

The Republican-named born-alive bill is designed to do what the title of the bill says, unlike the Democrat-named bill The Inflation Reduction Act, which is designed to do the direct opposite of what it says, because the left is built upside-down.

“This reasonable legislation would protect a baby born alive following an abortion,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “This bill isn’t about interfering with a so-called right to abortion. It is about stopping infanticide. Congress must act now to pass this legislation and protect these vulnerable babies.”

If the Democrats truly believe that killing a baby from an unsuccessful abortion is illegal already, then why are they opposing the bill?

Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO),  introduced the bill. She celebrated its passing following a years-long effort and clamored that the legislation will “ensure that every single baby born in the United States receives life saving medical care at their most vulnerable moment.”

The lower chamber also adopted on Wednesday a measure “condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks in opposition to GOP abortion legislation, but there is no proof that he has ever asked a woman he impregnated to get an abortion.

Abortion has killed more minority babies in America than have died in WW2, the Korean War, and Vietnam combined. 

That's about 490,000 in wars, to about 63,000,000 in wombs. The majority of abortions were of minority mothers.

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