Postal Service 'wildly unprepared'
to answer allegations it spied on
Americans: Rep. Nancy Mace
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/28/2021 3:21:48 PM
The U.S. Postal Service failed to answer lawmakers’ questions in a Wednesday briefing about its alleged spying on Americans, according to Rep. Nancy Mace, South Carolina Republican. Chief Postal Inspector Gary R. Barksdale briefed lawmakers on Wednesday about its “Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP)” that allegedly monitored Americans’ social media posts. Mr. Barksdale could not give a date for when the program started and denied that it was even a program but said an ‘executive’ was overseeing it, according to Ms. Mace’s office.(Snip)Ms. Mace’s office said Mr. Barksdale did not know how much taxpayer money was spent on the program, could not say what legal
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Locking Up and Gassing White People
in Hypothetical ‘Race War’ 26 replies
Locking Up and Gassing White People
in Hypothetical ‘Race War’ 26 replies
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Since when does the Stasi owe New Americans any explanation whatsoever? We're OK with them photographing and scanning the front and back of every letter and package they handle, on the pretext of keeping us safe from anthrax (that was thanks to Compassionate George and his "war on terror"), so monitoring people online is OK too. Maybe this partly explains why the Postal Service, with its expanded mission, is broke.