Over at the Intercept, Cora Currier and Morgan Marquis-Bore report on a German company called FinFisher that sold surveillance software to Bahrain while working under the UK-based Gamma Group. - By David Holmes , written on August 9, 2014
The Washington Examiner reports that Palantir, the intelligence contractor founded by Peter Thiel, donated “six figures” to the Clinton Foundation in 2014. The foundation is headed by Hillary Clinton and her husband, President Bill Clinton. [Disclosure: Thiel is an investor in Pando through Founders Fund.]
By Paul Bradley Carr , written on February 26, 2015
Last Friday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden Skyped into a Washington DC Marriott Hotel conference hall to proudly accept “The Students For Liberty Alumnus of the Year Award.”
Analysts with the Los Angeles Police Department are reportedly using Palantir software to direct officers to surveil “probable offenders” throughout the city, many of whom are not criminal suspects but have been spotlighted by the company’s predictive technology, according to LAPD documents. In Justice Today reviewed internal LAPD documents from October 2017 that point to […]
Silicon Valley billionaire — and Donald Trump supporter — Peter Thiel has emerged as an unlikely player in the international debate over Iran’s nuclear deal with six world powers. Thiel’s big-data engine, Palantir Technologies Inc., is at the heart of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s system for verifying Iran’s compliance with the landmark 2015 agreement, […]
High above the Hudson River in downtown Jersey City, a former U.S. Secret Service agent named Peter Cavicchia III ran special ops for JPMorgan Chase & Co. His insider threat group—most large financial institutions have one—used computer algorithms to monitor the bank’s employees, ostensibly to protect against perfidious traders and other miscreants. Aided by as […]
Predictive policing software — developed by Palantir and deployed secretly by the New Orleans Police Department for nearly six years — is at the center of a criminal prosecution. The Verge first reported the NOPD’s secret use of Palantir’s software a few weeks ago, something only the department and the mayor knew anything about. The […]
Newsbud Founder and Editor Sibel Edmonds is joined by Investigative Journalist Whitney Webb to discuss Webb’s recent three-part investigative report exposing billionaire founder of the Intercept- Pierre Omidyar. Webb delves deep into Omidyar’s long-ongoing multi-billion dollar partnership with government agencies, including the CIA and NSA, questionable coincidences and ties between Omidyar-Snowden, Glenn Greenwald’s hushed contract […]
Sarah Leigh Winner, also known as Reality Winner, the NSA contractor busted for leaking a document to The Intercept, is a patsy framed by the Deep State. On this edition of The Geopolitical Report, we delve into suspicious circumstances in the case, including Winner’s alliance with the alt-left and failed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, her […]
DOD spent $15,777,808,000+ on 237 individual contracts during May 2016 The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5:00PM local time. Our project distills an entire month of these contracts into an accessible form. The Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $15,777,808,000 on 237 individual contracts during May 2016. This […]
The U.S. Government, An Implicated Billionaire, Fortune-Seeking Journalists & A Public in the Dark Update 2: Glenn Greenwald Goes on Record: “I Don’t Doubt PayPal Cooperates with NSA!” Update 1: Verbatim Copy of Mr. Binney’s Statement The 50,000-pages of documents obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contain extensive documentation of PayPal Corporation’s partnership and […]
LAPD officers search for robbery suspects off Beverly Drive and Juanita Ave in the morning of 05-07-18. Los Angeles, CA, USA. Credit: John Fredricks (Photo by John Fredricks/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 14: A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. ICE agents said the undocumented immigrant was a convicted criminal and gang member who had previously been deported to Mexico and would be again. ICE builds deportation cases against thousands of undocumented immigrants, most of whom, they say, have criminal records. The number of ICE detentions and deportations from California has dropped since the state passed the Trust Act in October 2013, which set limits on California law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - MARCH 29: Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) ICE agents work in a control center during an operation targeting immigrant gangs in Central Islip, New York. Overnight and into the morning, U.S. federal agents and local police detained suspected gang members across Long Island in a surge of arrests. The actions were part of Operation Matador, a nearly year-long anti-gang effort targeting transnational gangs, with an emphasis on MS-13. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and John Thune (R-SD) after testifying before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Zuckerberg, 33, was called to testify after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows foreign nationals being arrested this week during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. Immigrant advocates on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, decried a series of arrests that federal deportation agents said aimed to round up criminals in Southern California but they believe mark a shift in enforcement under the Trump administration. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)
MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 07: Demonstrators march through the Wynwood neighborhood to protest police abuse on December 7, 2014 in Miami, Florida. The protest was one of many that have take place nationwide after grand juries investigating the deaths of Michal Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York failed to indict the police officers involved in both incidents (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
MIAMI, FL - MARCH 04: A phone is passed over a scanner during a demonstration in the use of the new mobile app for expedited passport and customer screening being unveiled for international travelers arriving at Miami International Airport on March 4, 2015 in Miami, Florida. Miami-Dade Aviation Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) unveiled a new mobile app for expedited passport and customs screening. The app for iOS and Android devices allows U.S. citizens and some Canadian citizens to enter and submit their passport and customs declaration information using their smartphone or tablet and to help avoid the long waits in the exit lanes. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 7: A New York City Police Department (NYPD) security camera hangs atop a light pole across the street from Trump Tower, March 7, 2017 in New York City. In a series of tweets on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of ordering wiretapping at Trump Tower during the run up to the election. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 27: Area Muslims and local immigration activists participate in a prayer and rally against President Donald Trump's immigration policies on January 27, 2017 in New York City. President Trump has taken actions since the inauguration to start the building of a long promised wall along the Mexican border and to cut federal grants for immigrant protecting 'sanctuary cities'. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump talks about the Veterans Choice Program Extension and Improvement Act before signing, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Ro Khanna, Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative from California's 17th District, during a break in the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 15: Undocumented immigrant and activist Jeanette Vizguerra, 45, stands with her children Roberto, 10, and Luna Baez, 12, as she addresses supporters and the media while seeking sanctuary at First Unitarian Church on February 15, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Vizguerra, who has been working the United States for some 20 years, and her children will be living in a room in the basement of the church hoping to avoid deportation after the local office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied a stay of her case which would lead to her immediate deportation. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, VA - JANUARY 27: U.S. President Donald Trump sits during a meeting to sign executive orders in the Hall of Heroes at the Department of Defense on January 27, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. Trump signed two orders calling for the "great rebuilding" of the nation's military and the "extreme vetting" of visa seekers from terror-plagued countries. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
BROOKLYN, NY - APRIL 17: A New York City Police Department wireless video recorder attached to a lamp post is seen on Knickerbocker Avenue April 17, 2006 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The set of cameras along Knickerbocker Ave. are the first installation of what will be 500 high-tech security cameras around the city. If the city receives $81.5 million in federal grants it plans on installing hundreds additionally in Lower Manhattan and midtown (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
MISSION, TX - AUGUST 15: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter passes over a drought-stricken pond near the U.S.-Mexico border on August 15, 2016 near Mission, Texas. The air patrol was searching for a group of illegal immigrants which U.S. Border Patrol agents had been chasing by foot. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump waves on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. In today's inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, delivers a speech during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, delivers a speech during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 27: (CHINA OUT) Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal Inc., speaks during a forum themed on entrepreneurship and investment at China National Convention Center on February 27, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 07: In this photo illustration, the Twitter logo and hashtag '#Ring!' is displayed on a mobile device as the company announced its initial public offering and debut on the New York Stock Exchange on November 7, 2013 in London, England. Twitter went public on the NYSE opening at USD 26 per share, valuing the company's worth at an estimated USD 18 billion. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)
