Members of Congress on Thursday asked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to provide information about an alleged group in the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that has been monitoring Americans’ social media accounts. The United States Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service. The inspection service has a group called the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) that has been monitoring activity on social media, including posts on Parler and Telegram, according to Yahoo News, which says it obtained a March government bulletin on the matter. “If the reporting is accurate, iCOP raises serious questions about the federal government’s ongoing surveillance of, and encroachment upon, Americans’ private lives and discourse,” House Oversight Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), along with 30 other Republican lawmakers, wrote to DeJoy. According to the bulletin, iCOP recorded the locations and times of protests. Social media websites Parler …
Congress Presses Postal Service After Report Agents Are Monitoring American Social Media Accounts
April 23, 2021
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