A covert U.S. Postal Service program monitoring social media for “inflammatory” posts to share the information with other law enforcement agencies, is coming under scrutiny itself by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Yahoo News reported Tuesday.
The online news organization has been reporting on the topic and discovered the federal agency was monitoring citizens social media posts and then reporting certain posts to other federal law enforcement agencies.
In a letter Monday from the Congressional Committee to U.S. Postal Service Inspector General Tammy L. Whitcomb, Committee Chairman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Ranking Member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., asked about the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), and under what authority the agency has to “conduct online intelligence operations” on citizens of the country.
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