GOP Congressman Compares Consumer Financial Protection Bureau To Nazis

BuzzFeed - “This is more than just NSA-style, this is more Gestapo-style collection of data on individual citizens who have no clue that this is happening,” Florida Rep. Daniel Webster said Monday at a Rules Committee hearing. View Video › WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman compared the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data collection to the Gestapo at a Rules Committee hearing Monday. "So this is far more than the NSA, far more than their meta-data, which only collects phone numbers but not names — far more because they have no re-authorization, far more because there is no appropriation restrictions placed on it," Florida Rep. Daniel Webster said. "This is more than just NSA-style, this is more Gestapo-style collection of data on individual citizens who have no clue that this is happening." Webster made the remark after a series of questions to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling about the CFPB's collection of consumer data.