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> Whatever Trump decides, the “dirty” or unstructured data obtained by Mossad, which prides itself on deception, could serve as a stress test for Palantir’s nuc
by NoGravitas 9y ago
> Whatever Trump decides, the “dirty” or unstructured data obtained by Mossad, which prides itself on deception, could serve as a stress test for Palantir’s nuclear analytics. Even a small amount of false information could trigger a flurry of unnecessary snap inspections and derail an agreement that took years to reach, Vaez said.
This smells very strongly of policy laundering. The Trump administration doesn't like the Iran nuclear deal, and they don't like the IAEA, but they can't directly act against either of them. But one Trump ally (Thiel) controls a tool that the IAEA depends on, and another Trump ally (Israel) controls the inputs to that tool.
So given the desired policy outcome, Palantir and Mossad wash the decision-making process so that the outcome appears to be arrived at independently and objectively.
- SiempreViernes 9y agoThe intel haul Mossad released was interesting in that it fills out the details of the background to the treaty itself, but as the data is about activities up to 2003 it just doesn't impact verification of current activities. Most of appears to have been known in the intelligence community, this was just publication of it. Here is a podcast with some experts discussing the release and having a general good time with all the nerdy details: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1205128/netanyahu-and-the-atomic-archive/ https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1205128/netanyahu-an...