"Defund the Data": The Secret Amendment That Could Blind Fraud Investigators Forever
About this episode
The episode discusses a controversial amendment that could hinder fraud investigations by restricting federal agencies' access to crucial data.
They caught $200 billion in fraud — now Congress wants to take away the tools that found it. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers are joined by fraud investigator Andy McClanahan to expose a buried amendment that would ban federal agencies from buying the data they use to hunt criminal fraud networks. Critics call it the "digital defunding of the police." Plus: a $14B Russian Medicare bust, the IRS keeping your biometrics while fraud cops get cut off, and Washington State chaos — a ballot box that exploded, 360 blank ballots in a dumpster, and voter cards where 92% of names were Chinese. Take away the data, and investigators go back to a notepad and pencil. Here's who benefits. Subscribe at TheDrillDown.com
People in this episode
Host: Peter Schweizer
Guests: Eric Eggers, Andy McClanahan
Topics covered
- fraud investigation
- data privacy
- government oversight
- digital defunding
- voter fraud
- biometrics
Keywords
- fraud
- data
- Congress
- IRS
- biometrics
- voter fraud
- investigation
- amendment
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Congress, IRS
Places: Washington State
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