Donald Trump has inherited the most powerful
machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might
wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already
vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own. But the outlook is
even worse considering Trump’s vast preference for private sector
expertise and new strategic friendship with Silicon Valley billionaire
investor Peter Thiel, whose controversial (and opaque) company Palantir
has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and
exploit information of any kind. Thiel represents a perfect nexus of
government clout with the kind of corporate swagger Trump loves. The
Intercept can now reveal that Palantir has worked for years to boost the
global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners, and was in
fact co-created with American spies.
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