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During a Wednesday briefing before the House Oversight Committee, Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale told lawmakers that iCOP began in to investigate potential crimes, such as drug and firearms trafficking transported by the mail system, but then moved into monitoring protests last spring because of the potential threat to Postal Service workers and buildings.

Nancy Mace, R-S. Barksdale began his testimony with a dramatic video of a mail truck engulfed in flames during the protests that erupted in Minnesota after Floyd's death.

The footage was intended to illustrate why iCOP resources were dedicated to tracking protests on social media, according to a GOP aide. During the presidential campaign, Democrats accused DeJoy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, of removing mailboxes and sorting machines to influence the November election, which had a record number of mail-in ballots.

Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. Biggs said legislators were also told that iCOP analysts use keyword searches in social media to identify any potential threats, such as rioting or looting. Between December and March , iCOP produced seven other similar bulletins on its social media investigations of upcoming protests, Barksdale said at the briefing. Those bulletins were shared with other federal agencies, which disseminated them to local and state law enforcement. Barksdale said iCOP would continue its surveillance work but would no longer produce the bulletins.

In a sign that bipartisan support for such legislation is unlikely, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. A GOP aide said that after DeJoy was appointed postmaster general in , he reallocated some of the eight-person iCOP team, currently staffed with only five analysts, to focus on protesters. Are cryptocurrencies ready to go mainstream? CBP: 'Perceptions of U. Biden administration looks to state foster care and shelters to house growing number of migrant children at border.

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He reports to the Postmaster General.