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Peter Thiel Insider Picked to Oversee Trump’s Defense Department Transition
- hga 10y agoPrevious discussion on why normal, "experienced" very much in the wrong way people were not picked for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13040395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13040395 TL;DR: "neo-cons" + Reagan's 1980 transition staff are all probably dead or seriously retired by now.
- dragonwriter 10y agoTraditionally experienced conservative, but non-neoconservative, defense experts are not particularly hard to find, even with the neoconservative domination of the Bush-era national security apparatus. OTOH, it might be that finding such people willing to work for Trump's team may be quite difficult.
- csbrooks 10y agoTruly an amazing million dollar investment on Thiel's part. The Trump presidency is his next unicorn. Looking forward to America becoming a kleptocracy just like Putin's Russia, with Thiel and friends leading the charge.
- ryanx435 10y ago> Looking forward to America becoming a kleptocracy just like Putin's Russia, with Thiel and friends leading the charge. also like Obama, who appointed a whole bunch of people who donated large amounts of money to the DNC to ambassador and other high ranking positions? http://observer.com/2016/09/wikileaks-guccifer-2-0-obama-sold-off-public-offices-to-donors/ http://observer.com/2016/09/wikileaks-guccifer-2-0-obama-sol...
- bbctol 10y agoSo Palantir is going to analyze all Americans' data. Sounds great. Just great.