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2025-01-23
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The CIA Director is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate; John Ratcliffe was sworn in as CIA Director on January 23, 2025, becoming the first person ever to have served as both Director of National…
2024-10-07
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In-Q-Tel has backed over 800 companies, holds approximately $1 billion in assets, receives roughly $100 million in taxpayer money annually, and attracts about $40 in follow-on commercial venture capital for every…
2019-03-06
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President Donald Trump revoked the Obama-era requirement for the CIA to report civilian casualties from drone strikes in 2019, a policy change that ‘reversed a two-year-old order by his predecessor Barack Obama’ and…
2017-04-21
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By summer 2015, Palantir CEO Alex Karp described the CIA as ‘recalcitrant’ in an internal staff video, and by 2017 BuzzFeed News reported that the CIA had grown so frustrated with persistent publicity associating…
2014-12-23
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The Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA of spying on its staff computers during the preparation of the Torture Report in 2014, an action that Senator Dianne Feinstein said ‘may well have violated the…
2014-12-09
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The CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation programme was found by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 2014 Torture Report to have constituted torture, to have been ineffective, and to have been misrepresented to…
2014-08-06
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CIA does not report contracting data on its classified programs and also doesn't disclose unclassified project awards to prevent revealing agency requirements
2014-08-06
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The CIA does not report contracting data on its classified programs and also withholds unclassified project awards to prevent revealing agency requirements; as a result, Palantir-related CIA contracts are largely…
2013-01-01
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After publication of a 2013 Forbes article, the CIA grew so frustrated by publicity about Palantir's business that it considered canceling its Palantir contract, but decided it would be too difficult to replace the…
2004-01-01
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The CIA helped Palantir refine Gotham, its first software product, and became its first significant customer
1947-07-26
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The Central Intelligence Agency was established by the National Security Act of 1947, signed into law on July 26, 1947, replacing the WWII Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as an independent civilian intelligence…
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