Covert Postal Service unit probed Jan. 6 social media- United States Postal Inspection Service’s Internet Covert Operations Program — better known as iCOP jumped into action after the insurrection, reports @woodruffbets: politi.co/3zJLa5H via @politico
"Few Americans are aware that the same organization that delivers their mail also runs a robust surveillance operation rooted in an agency that dates back to the 18th century." politico.com/news/2021/09/2…
@woodruffbets mentions @donk_enby scrape of Parler data. Later academics would also publish complete datasets of Parler posts such as @maxzzze. vice.com/en/article/n7v…
Concerning details of a DHS report from spring. The line will have to be drawn very carefully here. Remember the FBI has a made up category of "Black Identity Extremists". 
@woodruffbets correctly reports Wray has "signaled that the FBI’s internal rules about monitoring social media contributed to their failure to predict the violence" ... but there is good evidence that what Wray contends may be simply not true.
This would clear things up even more, to know the chronology here.
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