Treasury Faces Scrutiny Over Surveillance of Americans' Transactions

Janet Yellen avoids direct answers on allegations of Treasury instructing banks to monitor transactions for extremism.

Gun rights group urges senators to question Yellen about Treasury's alleged privacy violations in monitoring gun transactions.
Yellen sidesteps questions on whether Treasury ordered surveillance of legal purchases during a hearing.
House Judiciary Committee claims federal investigators asked banks to search transactions with terms like ‘MAGA’ and ‘Trump’ for signs of extremism.
Concerns raised over potential pervasive financial surveillance of gun ownership and other legal activities.
Treasury's actions aimed at identifying potential threats, but raise privacy and civil liberties issues.