Internet Covert Operations Program (ICOP)

Report Exposes United States Postal Service’s Controversial Spy Mechanisms

"A United States Postal Service (USPS) report obtained by Judicial Watch goes into unprecedented detail on the Postal Service’s covert operations program.

For over a year, it’s been known that the law enforcement arm of USPS has utilized sophisticated tools, including fake accounts managed by analysts, facial recognition software that scraps images off of websites and digital surveillance tool to comb through social media sites. “Inflammatory” posts about politics, planned protests and anything else the Postal Service considers relevant is then shared with other law enforcement agencies.

The program is far broader in scope than initially thought.

These clandestine operations within the nation’s postal service should create concern, especially for a troubled agency that has failed miserably to fulfill its mission. The USPS has long been a bastion of mismanagement and frivolous spending that has fleeced American taxpayers out of billions in the last few years alone."

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