Weaponized: The US Postal Service Is Also a Domestic Surveillance Agency

by
Steve MacDonald

The United States Postal Service (USPS) loses money like everybody’s business (because it’s our money). Over 87 billion in the past 14 years – or six billion dollars a year (on average). That must be how they are funding the spy agency inside the USPS.

These United States Postal Spies work for something called the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP). Its mission is not to deliver to you but to take from you information about your social media habits without your knowledge.

 

[A]n April 21, 2021, Yahoo! News report that the law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been “running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests.” …

“Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored significant activity regarding planned [anti-lockdown] protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021,” says the March 16 government bulletin, marked as “law enforcement sensitive” and distributed through the Department of Homeland Security’s fusion centers.

“Locations and times have been identified for these protests, which are being distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing leaning Parler and Telegram accounts.”

 

Remember when Obama tasked NASA with the job of improving Mulsim outreach? This sounds like that. A side gig into which the Feds funnel big money for some other undisclosed purpose.

The Postal Service has literally nothing to do with social media, but here we have a policing agency whose legitimate function has been hijacked, and Roid’d up to engage in systemic domestic surveillance.

THey’re probably tracking all your in and outbound mail as well, at least until they misplace it. Then they have no idea what happened to it.

Perhaps instead of spying on social media, they could use some of that money to surveil and then deliver all that lost frikkin mail.

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  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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