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posted by on Tuesday December 13 2016, @06:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the choose-to-recuse dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday December 14 2016, @09:47PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 14 2016, @09:47PM (#441437)

    Once perfected they get turned on the people who thought they were safe because they were stronger.

    How come INS only deports euro white people and H1B programmers and college grads, but they ignore anyone brown who can't speak English?

    I'm just saying the subcontracted dude who takes the trash out at my employer has nothing to worry about legally, but the feds are nuts about my Caribbean Island coworker with the American uni obtained MSEE who's paperwork doesn't have all the i dotted and t crossed. Or that woman from France with the MBA who got kicked out.

    Its almost as if in practice as opposed to in theory they want the weak but kick out the valuable and strong.

    If you speak English and have a degree and/or a real job the midwest locals are pretty cool with them, but INS won't let people like that in without a huge paperwork fight. On the other hand as long as they're unable to speak english they're willing to look the other way if and only if they take away "poor white crackers" jobs. Those are the only foreigners allowed in.

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