Re:ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt ill...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:18AM
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> Power of the executive is bestowed upon... one person
This is the unitary executive theory. It’s a novel Constitutional theory that even this SCOTUS seems reluctant to honestly embrace.
Re:ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt ill...
by TSiege on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:34AM
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They are not reluctant
Re:ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt ill...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:37AM
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> They are not reluctant
Read the Fed case transcripts.
From https://archive.is/E6zXj :
> But, as Chayes studied the graft of the Karzai government, she concluded that it was anything but benign. Many in the political élite were not merely stealing reconstruction money but expropriating farmland from other Afghans. Warlords could hoodwink U.S. special forces into dispatching their adversaries by feeding the Americans intelligence tips about supposed Taliban ties. Many of those who made money from the largesse of the international community enjoyed a sideline in the drug trade. Afghanistan is often described as a “failed state,” but, in light of the outright thievery on display, Chayes began to reassess the problem. This wasn’t a situation in which the Afghan government was earnestly trying, but failing, to serve its people. The government was actually succeeding, albeit at “another objective altogether”—the enrichment of its own members.