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'Agency heads ... created a politically charged environment that triggered an atypical analytic process around an issue essential to our democracy.'There’s a simple logic behind Palantir’s controversial rise in Washington
In 2003 Palo Alto, California, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and cohorts founded a software company called Palantir. Now, these 20-odd years later, with stock prices reaching escape velocity and government and commercial contracts secured from Huntsville to Huntington, Palantir seems to have arrived in the pole position of the AI race.
With adamantine ties to the Trump administration and deep history with U.S. intelligence and military entities to boot, Palantir has emerged as a decisive force in the design and management of our immediate technological, domestic, and geopolitical futures.
Curious, then, that so many, including New York Times reporters, seem to believe that Palantir is merely another souped-up data hoarding and selling company like Google or Adobe.
The next-level efficiency, one imagines, will have radical implications for our rather inefficient lives.
It’s somewhat understandable, but the scales and scopes in play are unprecedented. To get a grasp on the scope of Palantir’s project, consider that every two days now humanity churns out the same amount of information that was accrued over the previous 5,000 years of civilization.
As then-Gartner senior vice president Peter Sondergaard put it more than a decade ago, “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.”
Palantir spent the last 20 years building that analytics combustion engine. It arrives as a suite of AI products tailored to various markets and end users. The promise, as the era of Palantir proceeds and as AI-centered business and governance takes hold, is that decisions will be made with a near-complete grasp on the totality of real-time global information.
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The tech stack
Famously seeded with CIA In-Q-Tel cash, Palantir started by addressing intelligence agency needs. In 2008, the Gotham software product, described as a tool for intelligence agencies to analyze complex datasets, went live. Gotham is said to integrate and analyze disparate datasets in real time to enable pattern recognition and threat detection. Joining the CIA, FBI, and presumably most other intelligence agencies in deploying Gotham are the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Defense.
Next up in the suite is Foundry, which is, again, an AI-based software solution but geared toward industry. It purportedly serves to centralize previously siloed data sources to effect maximum efficiency. Health care, finance, and manufacturing all took note and were quick to integrate Foundry. PG&E, Southern California, and Edison are all satisfied clients. So is the Wendy’s burger empire.
The next in line of these products, which we’ll see are integrated and reciprocal in their application to client needs, is Apollo, which is, according the Palantir website, “used to upgrade, monitor, and manage every instance of Palantir’s product in the cloud and at some of the world’s most regulated and controlled environments.” Among others, Morgan Stanley, Merck, Wejo, and Cisco are reportedly all using Apollo.
If none of this was impressive enough, if the near-total penetration into both business and government (U.S., at least) at foundational levels isn’t evident yet, consider the crown jewel of the Palantir catalog, which integrates all the others: Ontology.
“Ontology is an operational layer for the organization,” Palantir explains. “The Ontology sits on top of the digital assets integrated into the Palantir platform (datasets and models) and connects them to their real-world counterparts, ranging from physical assets like plants, equipment, and products to concepts like customer orders or financial transactions.”
Every aspect native to a company or organization — every minute of employee time, any expense, item of inventory, and conceptual guideline — is identified, located, and cross-linked wherever and however appropriate to maximize efficiency.
The next-level efficiency, one imagines, will have radical implications for our rather inefficient lives. Consider the DMV, the wait list, the tax prep: Anything that can be processed (assuming enough energy inputs for the computation) can be — ahead of schedule.
The C-suite
No backgrounder is complete without some consideration of a company’s founders. The intentions, implied or overt, from Peter Thiel and Alex Karp in particular are, in some ways, as ponderable as the company’s ultra-grade software products and market dominance.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp stated in his triumphal 2024 letter to shareholders: “Our results are not and will never be the ultimate measure of the value, broadly defined, of our business. We have grander and more idiosyncratic aims.” Karp goes on to quote both Augustine and Houellebecq as he addresses the company’s commitment first to America.
This doesn’t sound quite like the digital panopticon or the one-dimensionally malevolent elite mindset we were threatened with for the last 20 years. Despite their outsized roles and reputations, Thiel companies tend toward the relatively modest goals of reducing overall harm or risk. Reflecting the influence of Rene Girard’s theory that people rapidly spiral into hard-to-control and ultimately catastrophic one-upsmanship, the approach reflects a considerably more sophisticated point of view than Karl Rove’s infamously dismissive claim to be “history’s actors.”
“Initially, the rise of the digital security state was a neoconservative project,” Blaze Media editor at large James Poulos remarked on the dynamic. “But instead of overturning this Bush-era regime, the embedded Obama-Biden elite completed the neocon system. That’s how we got the Cheneys endorsing Kamala.”
In a series of explanatory posts on X made via the company's Privacy and Ethics account and reposted on its webpage, Palantir elaborated: “We were the first company to establish a dedicated Privacy & Civil Liberties Engineering Team over a decade ago, and we have a longstanding Council of Advisors on Privacy & Civil Liberties comprised of leading experts and advocates. These functions sit at the heart of the company and help us to embody Palantir’s values both through providing rights-protective technologies and fostering a culture of responsibility around their development and use.”
It's a far cry from early 2000s rhetoric and corporate policy, and so the issue becomes one of evaluation. Under pressure from the immensity of the data, the ongoing domestic and geopolitical instability manifesting in myriad forms, and particularly the bizarre love-hate interlocking economic mechanisms between the U.S. and China, many Americans are hungry to find a scapegoat.
Do we find ourselves, as Americans at least, with the advantage in this tense geopolitical moment? Or are we uncharacteristically behind in the contest for survival? An honest assessment of our shared responsibility for our national situation might lead away from scapegoating, toward a sense that we made our bed a while ago on technology and security and now we must lie in it.
Task forces won’t cut it. Trump needs a truth commission.
No one’s cheering the pace of accountability since the Biden administration ended. Not even those who promised it. Bureaucratic obstacles, legacy systems built to resist scrutiny, and a federal culture allergic to transparency have slowed progress — sometimes to a crawl.
The reality is worse than expected. Even those with the best intentions have found it nearly impossible to extract and expose the truth. That failure isn’t just frustrating. It’s unacceptable.
A commission on political persecution would offer Americans what they’ve long been denied: justice, reconciliation, and a full accounting of the truth.
One of President Trump’s key promises for his second term was accountability — real, lasting de-weaponization of the federal government. His success will be judged by whether he delivers on that pledge.
Several months in, it’s clear the current approach may not be enough. What’s needed isn’t more subcommittees or working groups. What’s needed is a Trump-style solution: a big, beautiful operation designed to supersede the siloed efforts now underway.
Every new administration faces the same dilemma: clean up the last one’s messes while managing the day-to-day chaos of federal governance. Cabinet secretaries and agency heads walk into jobs already on fire. Few have the time, staff, or political will to launch sweeping internal investigations — especially when they’re tasked with running the agencies they’d be probing.
And time is the enemy. As months pass, political momentum cools. Distance sets in. Memories fade. I saw this firsthand during Trump’s first term. Having worked on the House Oversight Committee during the Obama years, I believed we would finally get answers about Benghazi, Operation Fast and Furious, and Hillary Clinton’s emails. We didn’t. Too many in Washington shrugged and said it was time to “move on.”
That can’t happen again.
The Biden administration oversaw one of the most sweeping and coordinated campaigns of federal abuse in modern U.S. history. Nearly every major department played a role.
The Department of Justice targeted pro-life activists and traditional Catholics. The FBI chased down January 6 defendants over misdemeanor charges and shattered lives in the process. Federal health agencies turned Orwellian, assuming censorship powers once considered unthinkable. Immigration authorities weaponized the law against citizens while rewarding illegal entry.
Meanwhile, intelligence agencies manipulated information, partnered with tech companies to censor dissent, and colluded with legacy media to shape a false public narrative. All of this operated with one shared goal: crush political opposition, and above all, destroy Donald Trump.
This wasn’t rogue behavior. It was systemic. And systemic abuse demands a systemic response.
A few scattered task forces won’t cut it. Today, we have the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group, a task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias, and another to combat anti-Semitism. Fine. But these efforts lack coordination, power, and focus.
They should be consolidated — or at least centralized — under a larger, empowered investigative body.
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This new entity must have one mission: hold the weaponizers accountable. It must have real teeth — subpoena power, prosecutorial authority, the ability to grant immunity for witness testimony, and the mandate to provide restitution for the Americans harmed by the Biden administration’s abuses.
We’ve seen this before. The United States has convened truth-seeking bodies to investigate civil rights violations. Other democratic nations have formed “truth commissions” to heal from periods of state overreach.
A commission on political persecution wouldn’t just fulfill one of Trump’s key promises. It would offer Americans what they’ve long been denied: justice, reconciliation, and a full accounting of the truth.
If Trump wants to succeed where others failed, he must go big. Not with more bureaucracy — but with a focused, powerful effort to make the permanent government answer to the people again.
Former CIA analyst who foresaw Boulder attack reveals next phase of Islamist plot
Back in January this year, former CIA intelligence analyst and targeter Sarah Adams joined Liz Wheeler on “The Liz Wheeler Show” and warned that we would see Islamist terror attacks across the United States in the coming days.
Last weekend, when Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national who was in the U.S. illegally, allegedly attacked a peaceful Jewish group in Boulder, Colorado, using Molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower, Adams was proven right.
On the latest episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Adams joined Liz again to share what she believes is coming next.
“What we saw in Boulder is kind of this radicalization around the pro-Hamas propaganda, and that's concerning in its own way,” says Adams.
However, as she warned back in January, these lone-wolf attacks are designed to seem like isolated events, but in reality, they are part of a bigger Al-Qaeda strategy to distract both the public and law enforcement from a much larger and more sinister plot.
“We call it kind of like law enforcement cannon fodder. It's to get law enforcement to go down rabbit holes and waste their time on low-hanging fruit so they don't get, like, the big 9/11-style attack coming,” she says.
Liz then brings up how “these terror groups in the Middle East are changing their strategy from trying to radicalize people who are “already in the United States” to “actually sending individuals to training camps in the Middle East and then infiltrating them into the United States.”
Adams says that’s correct: “There has been a standardized training structure for these external operatives.” Soliman, she says, was clearly "lacking some of the key training” that is typical in “Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists,” which leads her to believe that he was not formally trained in the Middle East but rather just “inspired by the events around Israel.”
Liz asks Adams about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent announcement that the National Counterterrorism Center identified 600 people with ties to Islamist terrorist groups. “Where are these people? Do we have any idea?”
“Those 600 it sounds like came in through an ISIS pipeline,” but that’s “only one pipeline,” meaning 600 is a very low estimate, says Adams. “According to ISIS, they have 2,500 terrorists in the United States on an illegal status ... meaning they have over 3,000 in the United States.”
“Joe Kent when he testified said there's another 1,400 on top of that 600 they have identified who are Afghan with links to terrorism,” she adds.
“What are they waiting for? ... Are they planning on committing another 9/11-style attack?” asks Liz, pointing out that border czar Tom Homan, when asked about the potential of another 9/11, responded with a harrowing, “It’s coming.”
Adams confirms Homan’s warning. “The IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] plot against Donald Trump,” specifically “his assassination,” is “a piece of the plot.” A second piece is “an assault mostly on Washington, D.C.” and an “assault on the aviation industry.”
“They’re going to drop airliners with suicide vests,” she warns. “They've even moved the suicide vests over the U.S. border already.” Even more disturbing is the fact that “there's been no increase in airport security because TSA's intel division has decided the vests aren't real.”
Further, the trained operatives who have been sent here, Adams says, are “well-trained,” “patient” people, “who can operate in the West, who speak fluent English, who can live in our communities just fine and not raise alarm.”
“This is terrifying,” says Liz.
To hear more of Adam’s intel, watch the episode above.
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Rachel Wilson was born to a Marxist feminist mom and a hard-core conservative, Rush Limbaugh-loving dad. Spoiler alert: It didn’t work out.
Rachel struggled in school but not because she wasn’t smart. On the contrary, she was too smart. By kindergarten she had already figured out that school wasn’t about learning but about obeying rules. When college rolled around, Rachel was so over traditional education that she turned down a full-ride art scholarship.
At 20, she became a mom and felt she had found her calling. But when returning to work at just four weeks postpartum loomed, Rachel realized just how toxic the modern system was.
She began asking questions about how we got to a place where it’s normal for babies to be shipped off to day care and new moms forced to return to work just days after birth.
Her questions landed her deep in feminist literature, where she discovered that the origins of the feminist movement are not what we’ve been told. The story of abused women oppressed by the patriarchy, forced to slave away at the stove and have babies until they perished, is the lie the radical left sells us.
The truth? It’s far more sinister than most realize. Elites, the CIA, and occultists are the ones who shaped women’s liberation — not to free women, but to control society.
On a recent episode of “Normal World,” Rachel joined Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs to unpack the dark history of feminism outlined in her book “Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation.”
“There's a whole hidden history to women's liberation that nobody knows about,” says Rachel. For example, most “don't know that there was way higher participation in anti-suffrage groups among women than pro-suffrage groups.”
However, the most shocking revelation Rachel uncovered during her research was that the feminist pioneers were almost all involved in occultism.
“Not a couple, but most of them dabbled in occult practices, whether it's like witchcraft, spiritualism. …There’s an old saying that there was never a suffragette that didn’t sit around the seance table,” she says.
“There was a lot of anti-Christian sentiment within the suffrage movement. They had radical lesbian separatist female pastors in like 1895 helping to rewrite the Bible.”
Their core belief was that “Christianity was invented by the evil patriarchy to control women and force them to be rape slaves.”
“Lucifer was actually a symbol of women's liberation in the 1800s. They openly said Lucifer was the good guy; he was trying to enlighten us and make us free and liberated, and God's actually the bad [guy],” says Rachel, noting that these aren’t her opinions but the real words of the original feminists.
Later, “the CIA pushed [the feminist movement],” not for the sake of women’s freedom but rather for the sake of control.
“We've been lied to about everything at this point,” says Dave.
To hear more about Rachel’s book and the wild origins of the feminist movement, watch the episode above.
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CIA to cut 1,000+ jobs as Trump admin targets spy agency bloat: Report
President Donald Trump's administration reportedly plans to slash roughly 1,200 positions at the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Washington Post reported on Saturday that the administration aims to make significant cuts to the intelligence community, including slashing positions at the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
'These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position CIA to deliver on its mission.'
Sources told the Post that the Trump administration plans to reduce the CIA's workforce over the next several years by easing hiring and relying on normal attrition, including early retirements and resignations.
Lawmakers have already reportedly been informed of the White House's goals.
Officials who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter confirmed plans to eliminate more than 1,000 CIA positions, the New York Times reported.
It is unclear how many workers the CIA employs, but it is believed to have 22,000 on staff.
While a CIA spokesperson did not confirm the alleged plans, she told the Post that the agency's director, John Ratcliffe, was "moving swiftly" to ensure the workforce is "responsive to the administration's national security priorities."
"These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position CIA to deliver on its mission," she stated.
In March, the CIA terminated 80 recently hired probationary employees. Those working on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the agency were also removed. The CIA does not plan on any more mass firings to reach its reduction goals.
Upon retaking office in January, Trump immediately worked to dismantle woke DEI initiatives the former administration had embedded across the federal government.
Under the Biden administration in 2021, the CIA launched a social media campaign, Humans of CIA, which consisted of recruitment advertisements that aimed to increase the agency's diversity.
One ad featured an intelligence officer who referred to herself as a "woman of color" and a "cisgender Millennial, who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder."
"I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise," she declared.
Another commercial featured a CIA librarian who highlighted the agency's inclusive workplace.
"Growing up gay in a small southern town, I was lucky to have a wonderful and accepting family," he stated. "I always struggled with the idea that I might not be able to discuss my personal life at work. Imagine my surprise when I was taking my oath at CIA, and I noticed a rainbow on then-Director [John] Brennan's lanyard."
Conservatives slammed the agency's woke recruiting advertisements.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said, "If you're a Chinese communist, or an Iranian Mullah, or Kim Jong Un...would this scare you?"
"We've come a long way from Jason Bourne," he continued.
In a separate post, he added, "My point is that CIA agents should be bad-asses—not woke, fragile flowers needing safe spaces."
Donald Trump Jr. also criticized the CIA for going "full woke."
"China & Russia are laughing their asses off watching CIA go full woke. 'Cisgender.' 'Intersectional.' It's like @TheBabylonBee is handling CIA's comms. If you think about it, wokeness is the kind of twisted PSYOP a spy agency would invent to destroy a country from the inside out," he wrote.
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Trump drops 10,000 pages of RFK assassination files, exposing puzzling early death reports
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that the Trump administration had released 10,000 new pages regarding the 1968 assassination of Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (N.Y.).
The long-since classified investigation documents were released as part of President Donald Trump's January 23 executive order directing the declassification of files on the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy, and Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
'In my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers.'
"The Executive Order establishes the policy that, more than 50 years after these assassinations, the victims' families and the American people deserve the truth," read a White House fact sheet on the action.
During an April 10 Cabinet meeting, Gabbard told Trump she had "over 100 people working around the clock" scanning the relevant files.
"These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before," she said.
Trump asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. how he felt about the news that the files on his father and uncle would be released in the coming days.
Kennedy responded, "I'm very gratified."
"I'm very grateful to you, Mr. President," he added.
On Friday morning, Gabbard told Fox News that the first batch of newly released files related to the government's investigation and "questions and theories that were being posed" concerning Sen. Kennedy's assassination.
The documents revealed that State Department cables were reporting on Kennedy’s death before it actually occurred.
Gabbard explained that the cables “showed different countries were sending messages to each other around Senator Kennedy’s assassination, saying that he had been assassinated, but that was before he was actually killed.”
"In my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers," Gabbard added.
"We're obviously not stopping here," she said. "We sent people out to hunt through different warehouses at the FBI and CIA, knowing there are likely other documents that have not yet been turned over to National Archives."
Gabbard noted that the second release would include more than 50,000 additional pages on the senator's assassination.
Kennedy Jr. responded to the document release, stating, "Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government."
"I commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency," he added. "I'm grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents."
A White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "Nearly six decades have passed since the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and these historic files have been hidden from the American people all this time — until now."
"In the name of maximum transparency, President Trump has released over 10,000 pages of the RFK files with more to come," the spokesperson continued. "There has never been a more transparent president in the history of our country than President Donald J. Trump. Another promise made and promise kept."
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