Matt Gaetz says USPS ‘covert operations program’ is ‘classic government’

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Matt Gaetz says the U.S. Postal Service should not be keeping tabs on citizens’ lives.

The Florida Republican told former Trump White House adviser Sebastian Gorka the recent reports of a program known as the Internet Covert Operations Program, which involves analysts combing through social media sites looking for “inflammatory” postings and then sharing those posts with government agencies, demonstrates that a “deep state” exists within the federal government.

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