00:00If they were up to nothing illegal, why would they try to delete a bunch of files? I'm just asking.
00:07Just a few hours after we got into their headquarters, we found that their chief accountant had actually deleted over
00:11a terabyte of accounting records from several years.
00:13So you'd have to ask the question, well, why would somebody do that?
00:16The Doge team, unfortunately, was able to recover that data with the help of a few great employees at the
00:20Institute of Peace.
00:21And I think the most troubling thing was they received $55 million a year from Congress.
00:26And any money that went unspent, instead of returning that to Congress, they would sweep it into a private bank
00:31account, which had no congressional oversight.
00:33And that's what they would use to fund things like events at their headquarters and the private jets.
00:38And so I think it's a great example because most Americans don't know what's going on at a lot of
00:43these smaller agencies.
00:44And this is, I think, the most extreme case of some of the wasteful spend that we're finding.
00:50So the agencies are hiding money from you.
00:53They're sending it to the Taliban.
00:55They have loaded weapons in the department buildings.
00:59At the Institute of Peace.
01:00At the Institute of Peace.
01:02Yes.
01:02That's right.
01:03So this is a cover-up when you guys roll in.
01:06This one, yes, a cover-up.
01:07It's a cover-up.
01:08They did delete a vast amount of financial information.
01:13That's really a definition of a cover-up.
01:14Isn't that illegal to delete evidence?
01:17Yes.
01:18Shred documents?
01:19It is.
01:20It's certainly illegal to delete accounting records that Congress would certainly want
01:24to know where the congressionally appropriated funds are going from taxpayers.
01:27pairs.
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