Eddington warned that people should not assume the Postal Service is the only federal agency snooping on their social media accounts.
It showed postal inspectors examining “right-wing Parler and Telegram accounts” ahead of planned protests. He noted that the Postal Service kept a March 2021 bulletin largely censored, but Yahoo News already had published it without redactions. Eddington wants Congress’ oversight committees to investigate further and said he is appealing for the Postal Service to lift redactions on details of its spying on Americans. The Postal Service watchdog’s investigation was a response to a request from the top Democrat and Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee. 30, 2022, and would ensure its inspectors’ online surveillance activities were authorized.
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The audit said the Postal Service agreed to conduct a full review of the analytics team, a new name for the iCOP program, before a targeted deadline of Sept. “Furthermore, we could not corroborate whether other work analysts completed from October 2018 through June 2021 was legally authorized.” “We determined that certain proactive searches iCOP conducted using an open-source intelligence tool from February to April 2021 exceeded the Postal Inspection Service’s law enforcement authority,” the Postal Service watchdog said in a March audit. The Postal Service inspector general said this year that the postal inspectors’ surveillance overstepped law enforcement authority and may not have had legal approval. Postal Inspection Service occasionally reviews publicly available information in order to assess potential safety or security threats to Postal Service employees, facilities, operations and infrastructure,” the agency said in a statement. Postal Inspection Service said its inspectors are federal law enforcement officers charged with protecting Postal Service employees, infrastructure and customers. The postal inspectors’ reports also include a redacted threat to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and a redacted tweet threatening Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.Īsked about its surveillance of Americans, the U.S. 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.
12, 2021, that the deplatforming of Parler likely disrupted coordinated protests planned for Inauguration Day, which postal inspectors compared to the riot on Jan. Other bulletins from postal inspectors show analysts following social platforms including Parler and Wimkin. 14, 2020, would cause traffic delays in the District, Maryland and Virginia and noted that the event had been posted on a “conservative forum.” Postal inspectors’ social media surveillance also determined that a “Million MAGA March” set for Nov. Details of the analysis were redacted, as was the analyst’s name. With heavy law enforcement presence the demonstrations stayed peaceful in nature.”Ī September 2020 bulletin from an analyst working on the social media snooping program noted that Louisville was operating under a state of emergency in anticipation of an announcement regarding the state’s investigation into Ms. “Counter-protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement also attended. “The gathering lasted approximately two hours, with members identifying themselves as affiliates of the Proud Boys, Boogaloo Bois and Last Sons of Liberty,” the postal inspectors’ bulletin said. Postal Inspection Service tracked “peaceful armed protests” by Virginians demonstrating at a Second Amendment rally for “Lobby Day” in Richmond on Jan. Eddington’s Freedom of Information Act request showed the U.S. A redacted situational awareness bulletin released in response to Mr.
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