by Ashley Oliver
A whistleblower testified in a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee in February that a major financial institution inappropriately data mined its customers’ bank information to aid the FBI in January 6 riot investigations.
Retired FBI National Security Intelligence Supervisor George Hill, who was based in the Boston Field Office in 2021, said Bank of America provided a list to the FBI of all customers who made transactions in or around D.C. January 5–7, 2021, according to a transcription of Hill’s testimony reviewed by Breitbart News.
Hill charged, among several allegations in his hours-long interview, that Bank of America had “no directive from the FBI” to compile the list and that it also prioritized at the top of the list “anyone who had purchased a firearm [anywhere] during any date” using a Bank of America product, such as a debit or credit card.
Hill’s testimony comes amid the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government investigating numerous allegations of civil liberties abuses by executive branch agencies.
Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has said that since Biden took office, he has received “dozens” of complaints from FBI whistleblowers that may relate to the subcommittee’s work.
Jordan and Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, which houses the weaponization subcommittee, have interviewed three such whistleblowers, including Hill, this year.
As follow-ups to those interviews, the chairman requested on Friday that FBI Director Christopher Wray arrange for 16 FBI employees to testify in interviews with the committee.