Thiel: surveillance good actually, USAID bad like Oliver North

Peter Thiel on fraud and USAID: “Something like Palantir ends up being a constraint on government action.” “A lot of abuses, the most extreme overreach happens where people thought there would be no accountability ever inside the government.” “There probably were a lot of deep state excesses that happen where, if Palantir had been used, there would have been more of a record of what people were doing.” “The people at NSA believed whatever power the software gave them, it also limited their power because there would be more accountability.” “Something like this is what Oliver North was charged with in the 1980s, that he engaged in fraud because he had mischaracterized various payments. If we want to be aggressive, so many of the people working at USAID could be charged with fraud like Oliver North was charged with fraud.” Via @RubinReportShow