According to records obtained by The Washington Times, the U.S. Postal Service was monitoring Americans focused on the gun issue and President Biden’s election.
The spying went on from September 2020 to April 2021.
The redacted records which were obtained by a Freedom Of Information Act request.
The Washington Times reported:
The U.S. Postal Service monitored protesters across the country, snooping on Americans focused on issues involving guns and President Biden’s election, according to records obtained by The Washington Times.
Postal inspectors tracked the actions of gun rights activists gathering in Richmond, Virginia; people preparing to demonstrate against police in Louisville, Kentucky, after an investigation into the police shooting of Breonna Taylor; and far-right groups headed to the District of Columbia after Mr. Biden’s election.
Cato Institute senior fellow Patrick Eddington obtained the heavily redacted records detailing the postal inspectors’ spying from September 2020 through April 2021, including through covert social media surveillance called the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP).
Freedom-lovers were livid at the report:
Per @WashTimes, “Multiple bulletins created by the postal inspectors include disclaimers that the reports are not intended to infringe on Americans’ constitutional rights but to provide information to law enforcement about the potential for violence and criminal activity.”
Sure.
so in short, instead of getting our packages to us on time, the USPS were spying on us?
— Lord Brian Urso, Lead Guitarist of Gideons Mob (@TheMobRules73) September 26, 2022
Did the Postal Service have a warrant for this?
In August 2020, The US Postal Inspection Service raided “We Build The Wall” official Brian Kolfage.
Kolfage is a triple amputee veteran.
The Gateway Pundit reported at the time:
Fifteen (15) members from the New York United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) showed up on Brian Kolfage’s doorstep to arrest him on the August 20, 2020.
It took 15 USPIS officers to arrest a triple amputee war hero in a wheelchair!
The USPIS agents looked through his children’s rooms. On the morning of August 20th at least five cars, all with New York state plates, showed up outside war hero Brian Kolfage’s house. Out came 15 USPIS agents, armed and ready. The agents no doubt thought through their actions on the long drive from New York to Florida. They came prepared with guns, gloves and masks so COVID wouldn’t slow them down. Three cars slowly came down Kolfage’s street and parked in front of his house. Then suddenly from the other direction, another van pulled into Kolfage’s drive and sped towards his house:
Next another car races down Kolfage’s drive and agents get out. Then a half dozen or so agents exit their cars from the street and march down his driveway towards his house:
The USPIS agents never contacted the US Federal Marshals in Florida until Kolfage was loaded in the car. When they went in the house, the agents looked all over, including in the children’s rooms. All the cars at Kolfage’s place driven by the USPIS agents had New York plates and the USPIS agents mentioned they drove all the way from New York.
Has another government agency gone rogue?
