Palantir and Total Information Awareness: The Alleged Connection

Peter Thiel, um, as an example, uh, Palantir has been in the news- Yeah ... right? He's a co-founder of that. So how was Palantir created?

Well, there was this company that was being run, or not company, sorry, it was a government, um, program after 9/11 called Total Information Awareness.

It was housed within the Pentagon's DARPA office, and the man they chose to put in charge of that was John Poindexter, who was the highest ranking member of the Reagan administration to be indicted for his role in Iran-Contra. Um, which again, the continuity of government stuff is, is relevant here. So, um, eventually,

uh, you know, it launches and whatever, but, uh, people un- are, are outraged by it because as they rightly point out, as they rightly pointed out, um, it would, uh, eliminate constitutional protections of Americans' rights, specifically the right to privacy,

among other things. It was a huge surveillance dragnet, and its goal wasn't just to, um, you know, surveil everything.

It was to, um, predict crime before it happens, predict terror attacks before it happens.

I mean, it's like Minority Report- Yeah ... was basically the end goal of it.

Um, and so after all the pushback, they changed the name to Terrorist Information Awareness and try and rebrand. Oh, it's not total. We're not gonna...

We are still gonna surveil innocent Americans, but we're focusing on the terrorists. You know, they did all this stuff to try and rebrand it.

Uh, but Congress defunded it, but in, hidden in that bill, Congress allowed aspects of it to continue. Um, and essentially, um, I argue in, in my work on Palantir that an effort was made to privatize large aspects of TIA as Palantir.

Because when Alex Karp and, and Peter Thiel were, were setting it up, they went to John Poindexter through this guy named Richard Perle, uh, who is a, a ne- longstanding neocon actor with, uh, very extensive ties also to the state of Israel. He was, like, caught in the '70s giving classified

information to Israel's embassy and should have gone to jail and somehow did not.

Um, and had a lot of ties also to Netanyahu's first government.

And he, Richard Perle is the guy that connected, uh, Thiel, Karp to Poindexter, and they wanted, they basically wanted to talk to Poindexter because they wanted to recreate Total Information Awareness and saw him as the godfather of modern mass surveillance.

And, um, in doing so, uh, they basically, uh, you know, Peter Thiel teams up with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm.

Uh, Alex Karp has said on record that the intended clients of Palantir from the beginning was the CIA. And, you know, uh, the CIA was their first client for their first six years as a company.

Uh, their top developers went to Langley, Virginia, which is CIA headquarters- Yep ... every two weeks just so that, show the CIA their project, uh, their product and have them tweak it to their liking.

And during that period of time, uh, one of the pe- top people at the CIA that would have been involved in that is this guy named Alan Wade, uh, who was also intimately involved with Total Information Awareness.

And if you look at how Total Information Awareness was described, its privacy protections, it's exactly the same as the way Palantir sold their stuff, uh, later on.

So there's an insane amount of overlap, and what's crazy here is that Alan Wade a few years prior had created, um, a Homeland Security software program that was also pre-crime-esque and similar to, to what Palantir ended up doing.

It was called Chiliad, and he teamed up with Christine Maxwell to do that