I think these were the same crowd drawing up plans to sell the government on how to crush wikileaks amid other miscellaneous dirty tricks. (<a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-11/tech/30050719_1_wikileaks-analytics-privacy" rel="nofollow">http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-11/tech/30050719...</a>)
it would be interesting to see what the internal divisions of palantir are, and what are their government/defense contracts like vs. their commercial products division.<p>fight for government money can always get a little dirty. i'm sure good engineering happens there but they will always be colored by the HB Gary episode. plus the fact that partnering with a shady right wing corporate law firm and the HB Gary Federal clown will alway reflect badly on their general common sense judgement...