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The Drey Dossier

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The Drey Dossier is an independent investigative project tracing how power operates through systems most people never see. Using open-source intelligence (OSINT), each episode follows money flows, corporate structures, surveillance architecture, and the technology shaping government and everyday life. This feed features the audio versions of Drey YouTube investigations, with the same reporting, same receipts, released alongside YouTube and Substack.
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House

A White House office with no Senate confirmation, no financial disclosures, and no entry in any federal procurement database has built a secret copy of vote.gov, the country's voter registration website. It is run by the same people who were sued for accessing federal databases without clearance at DOGE. And it is collecting data on Americans right now, on a federal drug pricing website, with no privacy notices filed and no oversight body with jurisdiction to stop it. I found it by accident. I w...

May 27, 202629 min

What we caught in Beijing

On May 13, a CIA officer testified under oath that the United States covered up the fact that COVID came from a Chinese laboratory. Not one Democratic senator showed up, and the hearing has 60,000 views on YouTube. The same morning, Donald Trump's plane was landing in Beijing with the CEO of the company that reads 80% of the world's DNA on the delegation list. Four days after he flew home, the WHO declared an Ebola emergency in two countries that had just signed agreements handing their pathogen...

May 20, 202628 min

Genesis Mission: The Manhattan Project for AI. Kind of.

On November 24, 2025, the federal government announced the largest AI program in American history and cut its science budget by thirteen percent in the same press release. They called the program the Genesis Mission, and they handed the largest piece of it to Oracle, the same company that already runs a federal clinical health records platform covering 9.6 million Americans, a platform called MHS GENESIS. And almost no one has connected these dots. Almost.This is the story of what the ballroom h...

May 11, 202622 min

you're paying for Trump's ballroom

Twelve hours after Saturday's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the Department of Justice gave the National Trust for Historic Preservation until 9 a.m. Monday to drop its lawsuit against Trump's ballroom, or face a government motion to dismiss the case entirely.On June 5th, a federal appeals court is scheduled to rule on whether the President can spend public money on a major construction project without Congress voting on it, and the precedent that ruling sets is the asset th...

May 01, 202626 min

How Larry Ellison and Gulf Money Just Bought Your News

Six days before the largest media merger in American history goes to a shareholder vote, Warner Bros. Discovery filed a fourteen-page correction to the document its shareholders are being asked to vote on. The correction only exists because of one retail shareholder on Staten Island sued. Almost no one is covering it. This is the story of what the Ellisons left out, and why WBD is now admitting, in writing, that they knew about it all along.This video covers:-The fourteen-page correction WBD was...

May 01, 202622 min

Why Iran's Blockade Is an Oracle Story

On the same day Apple Maps allegedly removed the names of every town in Lebanon, Israel announced a goal of demolishing those towns village by village, peace talks with Iran collapsed, and the US announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This is one story, and it runs through one company.What this video covers:The Board of Peace and what the charter actually says Why Gaza was never the pointLarry Ellison, Marco Rubio, Tony Blair, and Jared Kushner — and how they were connected years be...

May 01, 202619 min

Drey v. Oracle: The Third Amendment Case Nobody's Filed Yet

On March 31, Oracle unveiled an AI platform to unify civilian and military government data; while the same week they began laying off 30,000 workers. Your Medicare records, defense contracts, and AI targeting systems are now under one company roof. This is perhaps one of the most urgent and consequential discussion we can have at this moment.What this video covers:Oracle's new federal AI data platform and what "unifying civilian and defense data" actually meansWhy HIPAA doesn't protect you from ...

May 01, 202628 min

The Shy Girl AI Scandal Is Way Worse Than You Think

The Shy Girl AI scandal got so much worse. I traced the story backward from the New York Times and found a sales pipeline, a manuscript nobody can verify, and a consultant who spent five weeks shaping the story without once contacting the author. Mia Ballard got a phone call the day the article ran. The man who brought the scoop to the Times closes his blog post calculating whether the experience was worth it for him. She lost everything. He lost his byline credit.Eight months earlier, the same ...

Apr 14, 202630 min

IRAN: Why the Blockade Is an Oracle Story

On the same day Apple Maps allegedly removed the names of every town in Lebanon, Israel announced a goal of demolishing those towns village by village, peace talks with Iran collapsed, and the US announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. These are not separate crises. This is one story, and it runs through one company.What this video covers: The Board of Peace and what the charter actually says Why Gaza was never the point Larry Ellison, Marco Rubio, Tony Blair, and Jared Kushner — and...

Apr 13, 202619 min

Drey v. Oracle: The Third Amendment Case Nobody's Filed Yet

On March 31, Oracle unveiled an AI platform to unify civilian and military government data; while the same week they began laying off 30,000 workers. Your Medicare records, defense contracts, and AI targeting systems are now under one company roof. This is perhaps one of the most urgent and consequential discussion we can have at this moment.What this video covers:Oracle's new federal AI data platform and what "unifying civilian and defense data" actually meansWhy HIPAA doesn't protect you from ...

Apr 08, 202628 min

91 Percent Human: The Shy Girl AI Scandal

Mia Ballard wrote a horror novel called Shy Girl and self-published it in February 2025 with no agent and no deal, just the book on Amazon. The horror community found it on TikTok, and it steadily gathered momentum in the way that grassroots literary success still occasionally happens. Almost five thousand readers rated it on Goodreads. Reviewers called it corrosive but addictive, dark and visceral. For a self-published debut, it was doing something rare. It was finding its people.Hachette, one ...

Mar 23, 202625 min

Do No Harm (Terms and Conditions May Apply)

“Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private.” — The Hippocratic Oath, approximately 400 BCIn this video, I walk through exactly what Oracle has acquired since buying Cerner for $28.3 billion; all the clinical records from 14,000 medical facilities, the CMS contract covering Medicare and Medicaid for 150 million Americans, a...

Mar 23, 202624 min

Lyin' Country Safari

Larry Ellison, the fourth richest man on earth, bought a drive-through zoo in the Florida scrublands last November. He paid nearly three times what the land was worth, moved it through two shell companies in a single transaction, and started gutting the place: the water park, the carousel, the campground, the annual passes, gone.Less than two miles away, a mystery data center is fighting for approval, and buried in the zoo's decades-old zoning documents is something no one in the community has b...

Mar 23, 202628 min

The Cloud Is a Battlefield, and You're Enlisted

On March 1st, 2026, Iranian drones hit three Amazon data centers in the Gulf. These were not military installations. They were commercial server buildings processing bank transactions, hospital records, and the daily logistics of millions of civilian lives.Those same buildings were also running the Pentagon's AI. The host governments didn't know. The customers didn't know. The communities living next to them didn't know. And under international humanitarian law, the moment classified military wo...

Mar 09, 202619 min

The Merger That Needed A War

Yesterday Oracle got authorization to run generative AI on federal government data. The highest civilian security clearance + Department of Defense clearance + Medicare records + Military systems. I've written a policy brief asking Congress for three specific things: a formal conflict of interest review, data firewall requirements, and Oracle treated as a related party instead of a neutral vendor. The brief is on the Substack below, along with every filing and citation so you can check the work ...

Mar 02, 202622 min

We Should All Be Freaking Out About CNN

Paramount just bid thirty-one dollars a share for Warner Bros. Discovery, and every outlet in Hollywood is covering it as the biggest media deal in history. Who gets HBO. Who gets Batman. Whether movies stay in theaters. Meanwhile, on October 1st, 2025, someone quietly filed three brand new LLCs in Delaware with CNN's name on them, twenty days before the company announced it was open to a sale, and nobody has ever reported on them. The original CNN entities just signed onto $17.5 billion in bank...

Feb 25, 202619 min

Has Anyone Seen Milo?

Amazon spent millions putting a lost dog in front of a hundred million people during the Super Bowl. The ad was thirty seconds long, emotionally bulletproof, and a perfectly accurate depiction of a networked AI surveillance system activating across an entire residential neighborhood. They just made sure you were crying when you saw it.Meanwhile, in Tucson, an 84-year-old woman had been missing for over a week. Her Nest doorbell footage was declared unrecoverable by local law enforcement. Then th...

Feb 21, 202632 min

Trump's ballroom is just the lid

The White House told the public they were building a ballroom, and the donors said they were paying for it. But CNN has now confirmed a classified facility underneath, the cost swings by a hundred million dollars in a single day, and the architect who rebuilt the Pentagon just picked up three federal contracts within seventeen days, all within walking distance of the White House.This is the part 2 to a video I made a few months ago about how a ballroom became a lid, how the companies funding it ...

Feb 13, 202625 min

The Billionaire Behind Britain's Digital ID

The UK government told three million people that digital ID would be optional, and the newspapers called it a victory. But the database was never optional, the verification infrastructure was never optional, and the man behind it all has been working on this for twenty-five years. This video is about how Larry Ellison went from being rejected by America after 9/11 to embedding Oracle in the NHS, funding Tony Blair's institute, hiring a Prime Minister's father-in-law, and quietly building the exa...

Feb 13, 202631 min

The Automation of Death and the Death of Accountability

September 2nd is being presented as a counter-narcotics operation gone wrong; a tragic but lawful strike in the Caribbean, reviewed by military lawyers, authorized through proper channels.But once you follow the AI contracts, the shell companies, the 41-minute gap between strikes, and the six different stories the Pentagon has told, the story looks very different. And when Grok generates millions of CSAM images, files zero reports, and gets deployed to 3 million service members sixteen days late...

Feb 10, 202624 min

Tony Blair and The Uncle Larry Doctrine

Palantir is supposed to be the scariest surveillance company on earth. But what happens when someone even more powerful decides to build a quieter version of it?This video is about how Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle, used Tony Blair and a “think tank” to do what he couldn’t do himself: outflank Palantir and build a parallel surveillance empire, one that runs through governments, healthcare systems, and post-war reconstruction projects.If you want the full reporting, the timelin...

Feb 10, 202615 min

The Fatherboard: Venezuela & AI Warfare

Venezuela is being presented to the world as a sudden, chaotic coup — a rogue state collapsing under the weight of its own failures, rescued in a clean, high-tech military operation.But once you follow the data pipelines, the AI contractors, the ghost labor platforms, the satellite networks, and the synthetic media flood that surrounded January 3rd, the story looks very different.This video is about how Venezuela became the first country where AI-driven targeting, economic collapse, and algorith...

Feb 09, 202621 min

Stargate LLC: An American AI Project. Kind of.

Stargate LLC is being introduced to the world as America’s big AI healthcare project, promising cures with AI driven Cancer research, jobs created with innovation, and beating out china in our new cold war reality. But once you follow the ownership, the infrastructure, the data flows, and the power around it, the story looks very different. This video is about what happens when genomic data becomes the foundation of global AI systems, and why that should matter to anyone who has ever been to a d...

Feb 09, 202630 min

Trump's ballroom is a lie

Trump says he’s building a ballroom at the White House. I say he's building something much, much bigger. This video walks through why that explanation doesn’t hold up- based on public records, contractors involved, architectural changes, and infrastructure upgrades that point to something else entirely.All documents and sources referenced in this video are linked on my Substack, The Drey Dossier:https://thedreydossier.substack.com/

Feb 09, 202616 min

Israel, TikTok, and Oracle's Surveillance Pipeline

Larry Ellison’s connection to Israel is a sacred one — but not for the reasons most people assume. It's time to look at how Israel became the proving ground for surveillance infrastructure that now shows up everywhere: underground data centers, AI war systems, and consumer platforms like TikTok.All sourcing and documents are linked on my Substack, The Drey Dossier.https://thedreydossier.substack.com/

Feb 09, 202632 min

How Oracle took over China

In the 1990s, Oracle helped build China's national ID system. This is the story of how one contract shaped surveillance infrastructure still in use today. All sources and documents are available on my Substack.Read the full investigative series here: https://thedreydossier.substack.com/Follow along:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedreydossierInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedreydossier

Feb 09, 202622 minEp. 1
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