The Postal Service is running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts
Jana Winter
Wed, April 21, 2021, 12:00 PMYahoo News
Life under Chairman Biden, I guess.
https://www.uspis.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2019AR.pdfpage 36
The Internet Covert Operations Program
(iCOP) is one of seven functional groups
within the Inspection Service Cybercrime
program. The iCOP program protects
the Postal Service and the public by
facilitating the identification, disruption,
and dismantling of individuals and
organizations that use the mail or USPS
online tools to facilitate black market
Internet trade or other illegal activities.
Analysts in iCOP utilize USPS systems and
tools to provide open source intelligence
and cryptocurrency blockchain analysis
in support of all Inspection Service
investigations.
In Fiscal Year
2019, the iCOP teamproduced a total of 209 Intelligence
Reports to the field in support of
investigations involving narcotics, mail
theft, revenue fraud, homicide, dangerous
mail, and more. In all, analysts identified
nine (9) previously unknown individuals,
and their reports resulted in the arrest of
10 individuals.
The iCOP team also completed 74
cryptocurrency analysis products resulting
in the seizure of over $300,000 in
cryptocurrency....