(Kyle Kalinsky reminds us the school was "triple tapped."
meaning it was not hit by mistake.)
QUIETLY NOW:
I would be worried that Palantir was involved in picking
those "drug boat" targets for the military and the girls
school in Iran.
First, the drug boats. If Palantir were picking targets for
Hegseth's attention, then they would have followed the
"trafficker" suspects from their labs/factories and to the
loading docks, this would mean that they could identify
the passengers on those boats, or the people who could
identify them. If Palantir collects and analyses the kind
and the quantity of data that is claimed, it would not be too
big a stretch to believe that they actually have that kind
of information in their systems. Of course, that could be
a serious problem, and worse, if they cannot or will not
produce such data that could become a point of some
very serious contention, worldwide.
Next up is the girls' school in Iran. If Palantir is the
source of the targeting of the school, then what the
heck is going on? They were theoretically monitoring
the traffic to and from the school for months at a
time, so how could they have missed the fact that
it should not have been on the target list? Or,
in the alternative, did the military simply go
rogue and ignore the data? So now there's
a potential fight between the military and
Palantir, hardly any doubt who would win
in such an event. Things just keep getting
more and more interesting as time goes on.
An interesting point i thought about... If any foreign country has a good and sufficient reason to believe that Palantir was the source of targeting for their citizens wrongly deprived of life or liberty, they have a cause of action against this private company that warrants judicial review and perhaps remediation.
That may also be true of private prison companies who also have a duty to see to it that they are not complicite in illegally depriving people of libery or life. The mere fact that ICE turned a person over for detention doesn't automatically confer any form of immunity. Once it becomes public knowledge that persons are being illegally arrested and held, these public companies have a duty to quickly investigate each detention to ensure that it is legal, or they too may be exposed to judicial review and remediation requirements.
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