Feds suggested banks search transactions for terms like 'Biden,' 'Antifa' and more after Jan 6: sources

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EXCLUSIVE: Federal investigators suggested banks search private financial transactions using terms beyond "Trump" and "MAGA" after Jan. 6, 2021. Additional suggested terms included "Biden," "Kamala," "Antifa" and more, sources familiar told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital on Wednesday reported that the Treasury Department’s Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, distributed materials to financial institutions that outlined "typologies" of "various persons of interest" and provided the banks with "suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement."

'ALARMING' SURVEILLANCE: FEDS ASKED BANKS TO SEARCH PRIVATE TRANSACTIONS FOR TERMS LIKE ‘MAGA,’ ‘TRUMP’

Sources familiar told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the search terms, like "MAGA" and "Trump," were generated by a bank and used to help them identify suspicious transactions when reviewing customer transactional information. It is unclear which bank generated the search terms.

The sources said FinCEN then shared those terms with other banks to help those financial institutions to comply with their own suspicious activity reports.

But beyond the terms identified by the House Judiciary Committee, the unnamed bank generated other terms, which FinCEN