Caesar's wife must be above suspicion, but Trump's transition team and ultimately cabinet, seems rife with conflicts of ignorance. The Intercept reports that:
Palantir Technologies, the data mining company co-founded by billionaire and Trump transition advisor Peter Thiel, will likely assist the Trump Administration in its efforts to track and collect intelligence on immigrants, according to a review of public records by The Intercept. Since 2011, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has paid Palantir tens of millions of dollars to help construct and operate a complex intelligence system called FALCON, which allows ICE to store, search, and analyze troves of data that include family relationships, employment information, immigration history, criminal records, and home and work addresses.
I guess this is what happens when you elect a businessman to political office: they run it like a business.
Working closely with a President-elect who has pledged to dramatically expand ICE, Thiel's varied connections to the immigration agency place him in a position to potentially benefit financially from a deportation campaign that carries highly personal stakes for millions of Americans.
They always say: you have nothing to worry about, if you have nothing to hide.
Palantir, which is backed by the CIA's venture capital arm, did not respond to a request for comment regarding its ICE contracts and concerns over potential conflicts of interest. Peter Thiel spokesperson Jeremiah Hall declined to comment on a list of emailed queries, including a question asking whether Thiel has yet signed the Trump transition ethics agreement.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:07AM
A child born on US soil to a Mexican father and a Mexican mother is NOT a US citizen.
Yes, they are, by law, by the constitution, and any racist fucking hillbilly that tries to say otherwise is a traitor! DO YOU HEAR ME, RUNAWAY! Stop you traitourous yammerings, or we will have to have you put down. You, sir, are no American, and I am sure that your mother and father hang their heads in shame! (And of course, I am not even an American, but I know more about the laws of your country than you do, you fucking illiterate stupid fucking hillbilly from the wrong side of the watershed, you! ) OK, I feel better now.
(Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:19AM
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:22AM
No, it's over. I feel better now. But if each an every Soylentil could every day remind Runaway1956 what an ass he is, I would much appreciate it.