Inside America’s Corruption Capital - Washington D.C. 🇺🇸

Corruption exists everywhere, but in America, how corrupt have the federal government and the agencies that run our country become? Today, we meet with First Amendment attorney Benjamin Barr to stroll around Washington, D.C., to better understand government corruption, learn how our tax dollars are used, and discover more about how America operates behind the scenes. ► Scroll down for citations ► Food truck in the video: ► 🎥 More Behind the Scenes Videos: ► 📝 My Free Weekly Newsletter: ► 👕 Merch: ► 🎞️ Video Edited By: Natalia Santenello SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL ✅ ► FOLLOW ME 📸 ► Instagram: ► YouTube: ► Facebook: ► Website: ► X: CITATIONS FOR THIS VIDEO 🎞️ 1. The Department of Homeland Security regularly purchases social media data from third-party vendors to spy on Americans. This is known as the “data broker loophole” because purchasing data instead of seizing it does not implicate the Fourth Amendment protection against such activity. Senators Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) have put forth a bipartisan bill to end this. Sources supporting this claim: ► Tech Policy Press, “The US Government Buys Data for Surveillance. For Immigrants, It’s a Matter of Survival,” April 18, 2024, available at: ► FedScoop, “DHS buying personal data from govt contractors pushes Congress to pass legislation curtailing 3rd party data brokers,” July 22, 2022, available at: 2. The Department of Homeland Security (and other federal agencies) conduct surveillance on American political and protest groups. ► ACLU, “The Government Is Watching BlackLivesMatter, And It’s Not Okay,” August 4, 2015, available at: ► Aljazeera, “Documents show US monitoring of Black Lives Matter,” Nov. 28, 2017, available at: 3. More than fifty percent of Centers for Disease Control employees will leave to work in its regulated industry (“Big Pharma”). ► The Health Affairs Journal conducted a study in 2023 demonstrating this trend. Health Affairs, “The Revolving Door in Health Care Regulation,” Sept. 2023, available at: . ► Daily Mail, “More than HALF of CDC staff leave to work for Big Pharma and ‘revolving door’ of workers at public agency makes it vulnerable to corruption, report warns,” Sept. 5, 2023, available at: 4. The Centers for Disease Control has its own non-profit foundation to conduct “private-public” partnerships. ► The Lown Institute, “CDC ‘disclaimers’ hide financial conflicts of interest,” Nov. 6, 2019, available at: . This also provides examples of contributions from “Big Pharma” to the foundation, like a grant from Roche, maker of Tamiflu, to it. ► CDC Foundation, “Public-Private Partnerships and Conflict of Interest Guidelines,” 5. The Department of Homeland Security is regularly ranked as one of the worst performing departments and is subject to ongoing criticism for its lack of internal discipline. ► Office of Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security, “DHS Needs to Improve its Oversight of Misconduct and Discipline,” June 17, 2019, available at: ► United States Government Accountability Office, “DHS EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT, Actions Needed to Better Assess Differences in Supervisor and Non-Supervisor Discipline,” Feb. 2024, available at: ► Reason Magazine, “The Department of Homeland Security Is a Mess of Misconduct and Ineptitude,” Sept. 10, 2019, available at: Thank You All!!! All rights reserved © 2024 Peter Santenello