Jim Jordan, R. Ohio, House Judiciary Chair, stated Tuesday that the federal governments has been weaponized in order to spy on Americans’ bank accounts and financial transactions.

Jordan, on the TV show “Just the News, No Noise”, said: “We know that in 2023, 14,000 different government officials [will] search this database about three million times in a year ……14,000 people will have searched it over three million times.”

The House Judiciary Committee released a report last week that revealed how the federal government was able to access the private financial information of ordinary Americans without any checks. The report states that “the FBI has manipulated Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) to treat financial institutes as de facto law enforcement arms, issuing requests, without legal process, which amount to demands for data related to certain people or activities they consider’suspicious’.”

Jordan explained the way that the law should work: If banks notice something suspicious, they must report it to Treasury Department. “But in reality, the FBI and other agencies go to banks and say, ‘Hey you might want do a report on that, or this person,’ or ‘on this business,’ and it then comes in to the government, goes into this database, and everyone searches it and spys on what you are doing in your account.”

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The House GOP opened an investigation last year into Bank of America after a whistleblower testified that the company had voluntarily shared private financial information of its customers without legal process with the FBI.

Just the News reported for the first time in February 2023 that FBI whistleblowers raised concerns regarding the acquisition of bank records by subpoena. Jordan stated that “that is not the way our system should work.”

In April of this past year, fifteen state financial offices from thirteen different states sent an open letter to Bank of America’s CEO, telling him that he should stop “debanking” conservative clients.

The financial officers claim that Bank of America has violated the civil rights of Americans in the letter they sent.

In the letter, the bank is accused of discriminating against Christian organizations’ accounts as well as joining a climate alliance with a net zero goal.