Overview

• Gun rights group urges senators to question Yellen about Treasury's alleged privacy violations in monitoring gun transactions.
• Yellen sidesteps questions on whether Treasury ordered surveillance of legal purchases during a hearing.
• House Judiciary Committee claims federal investigators asked banks to search transactions with terms like ‘MAGA’ and ‘Trump’ for signs of extremism.
• Concerns raised over potential pervasive financial surveillance of gun ownership and other legal activities.
• Treasury's actions aimed at identifying potential threats, but raise privacy and civil liberties issues.