Peter Thiel's Surveillance Empire Finally Captures the Federal Government

From CIA startup to battlefield tracker to the complete digitization of American citizens— and how a Narativ investigation exposed it.

On April 13, I posted Part 1 of Narativ’s New Feudalism series, which detailed how DOGE was building a surveillance state on Palantir’s AI Foundry platform. The story broke a full 7 weeks before the New York Times published its May 30 story. While the Times story added important new details about Palantir’s contract with the Trump Administration, two i…