[celliopia]

If Palantir is contracted to provide services, then the data they collect and the way they use it internally is almost certainly beyond the reach of a FOIA request. Then again, this sort of plausible deniability Big Brother crap is nothing new to governments at all levels. Steve Rambam has been mentioning for years that the three-letter-agencies used to GIVE mountains of data to companies like InfoUSA and tell them to cross reference it with everything they had... and sell them answers to queries. Why outsource it all? Because FOIA cannot be used to answer the question "How did you arrive at your investigative solutions."

Perhaps it should be law that if you cannot find such answers by FOIA then the information shouldn't be admissible in court.