Swordsmyth
09-20-2017, 05:57 PM
In a fairly epic new Vanity Fair profile (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/donald-trump-peter-thiel-top-intelligence-advisory-post), the magazine reports that Peter Thiel is the frontrunner to become the chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), a meta intelligence entity that functions independently from the nation's spy agencies.
The makeup of the board has varied over the years; while some presidents stock it with intelligence experts from the private sector, others reward political allies as they might in other appointee positions. Vanity Fair reports that while it sounded like Thiel's potential role was off the table in August, now the PayPal co-founder is again in talks to take the top post.
The Trump administration's PIAB site is not functional at this time, but the Obama administration offers its archived description (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/piab) of the board's role:
The Intelligence Oversight Board oversees the Intelligence Community’s compliance with the Constitution and all applicable laws, Executive Orders, and Presidential Directives.
It complements and supplements, rather than duplicates the oversight roles of the Director of National Intelligence, Department and Agency Inspectors General and General Counsels, and the Congressional Oversight Committees.
Thiel might be controversial, but he's a logical fit for the key intelligence advisory role. His data mining company Palantir is probably most famous for its contracts with government intelligence agencies (https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/11/leaked-palantir-doc-reveals-uses-specific-functions-and-key-clients/) and he's a longtime Trump ally (https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/peter-thiel-to-back-trump-as-gop-presidential-candidate/) who has never wavered (https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/in-speech-peter-thiel-defends-what-trump-represents-much-more-so-than-candidate-himself/)in response to the kind of controversial choices by the Trump administration that provoke outspoken backlash from most corners of Silicon Valley.
More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-being-considered-chair-230215047.html
Palantir? Is he the one responsible for the Saudi ORB:
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fqueenbeeedit.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F05%2FSaruman-and-the-Orb-Meme-269x315.png&f=1
The makeup of the board has varied over the years; while some presidents stock it with intelligence experts from the private sector, others reward political allies as they might in other appointee positions. Vanity Fair reports that while it sounded like Thiel's potential role was off the table in August, now the PayPal co-founder is again in talks to take the top post.
The Trump administration's PIAB site is not functional at this time, but the Obama administration offers its archived description (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/piab) of the board's role:
The Intelligence Oversight Board oversees the Intelligence Community’s compliance with the Constitution and all applicable laws, Executive Orders, and Presidential Directives.
It complements and supplements, rather than duplicates the oversight roles of the Director of National Intelligence, Department and Agency Inspectors General and General Counsels, and the Congressional Oversight Committees.
Thiel might be controversial, but he's a logical fit for the key intelligence advisory role. His data mining company Palantir is probably most famous for its contracts with government intelligence agencies (https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/11/leaked-palantir-doc-reveals-uses-specific-functions-and-key-clients/) and he's a longtime Trump ally (https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/peter-thiel-to-back-trump-as-gop-presidential-candidate/) who has never wavered (https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/in-speech-peter-thiel-defends-what-trump-represents-much-more-so-than-candidate-himself/)in response to the kind of controversial choices by the Trump administration that provoke outspoken backlash from most corners of Silicon Valley.
More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-being-considered-chair-230215047.html
Palantir? Is he the one responsible for the Saudi ORB:
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fqueenbeeedit.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F05%2FSaruman-and-the-Orb-Meme-269x315.png&f=1