"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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