While the Department of Government Efficiency traces the flow of dollars between government and partisan activists, the flow of data may reveal an even deeper menace.
The real story of government weaponization can only be told once we reckon with the shadowy data-sharing web secretly used to manipulate elections, punish foes and silence speech — which my new book, “They’re Coming for You,” dares to expose.
Without the constitutional authority to collect our financial transactions, our browsing histories or our location data, the Biden administration found a workaround.
Federal agencies outsourced unconstitutional data grabs to politically aligned partners.
Instead of collecting data directly, they bought or sold it from or exchanged it with nonprofits and tech companies.
Author Jason Chaffetz was a House Oversight Committee chairman. Reuters
My book exposes three critical fronts where this abuse thrived: election interference, citizen surveillance and the erosion of free speech.
The silent manipulation of