More crony capitalism. >The Defense Department is a major customer of software from Palantir, where Thiel serves as chairman. The company won a lawsuit against

More crony capitalism. >The Defense Department is a major customer of software from Palantir, where Thiel serves as chairman. The company won a lawsuit against the U.S. Army last month, giving it a second chance to compete for a data system contract potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.