Credit to The Peter McCormack Show for their great interview with Whitney Webb.
This video unpacks how post–9/11 surveillance architecture never truly disappeared, but was quietly privatized and rebranded under the banner of innovation and national security. Using Peter Thiel and Palantir as a central case study, the discussion traces a direct lineage from the Pentagon’s defunded Total Information Awareness program to today’s predictive policing and data-mining platforms. What was once openly housed inside DARPA, under figures tied to Iran-Contra and neoconservative power networks, reemerges as a Silicon Valley success story—sold as efficient, neutral, and necessary, even as it revives the same constitutional concerns that once provoked public outrage. The result is not merely mass surveillance, but the normalization of pre-crime logic, where algorithms speculate on future guilt rather than document past actions.
The conversation expands beyond Palantir to show how this model extends into emergency services, intelligence contracting, and the consolidation of state power through private firms embedded with security agencies. It connects predictive surveillance to older intelligence tactics like sex blackmail and political compromise, arguing that modern data harvesting has made such methods more scalable and less visible. Figures linked to Epstein, intelligence agencies, and global capital appear not as anomalies, but as products of a system that rewards compromise and control. The video challenges the comforting assumption that surveillance targets only the guilty, insisting instead that the true danger lies in systems designed to judge intent before action, and to quietly reshape power without democratic consent.
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