A law-enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security participated in a secret bulk surveillance program that collected millions of records about certain money transfers of some Americans without a warrant, according to officials and a U.S. senator.
Senator Wyden demanded an probe after finding out ICE has secretly surveilled and collected records on 200 million American money transfers without obtaining a warrant for at least the last 12 years.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretly collected "a massive trove of ordinary Americans' financial records" without a warrant, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Tuesday in a letter to the agency's inspector general.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) obtained millions of people’s financial transaction records without warrants as part of a covert surveillance operation, according to a lawmaker.