Palantir recursive pass — depth 4 contracts, ethics and portfolio

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      "Report active depth during research.",
      "Separate obligations, outlays and conditional commitments.",
      "Do not infer causation from association, employment, investment or temporal sequence.",
      "Mark unresolved ethics and technical controls as investigation targets.",
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      },
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        "branch": "B",
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        "finding": "Resolved Minor's disclosed PLTR sale and preserved Barbaccia's disposition and recusal status as unresolved."
      },
      {
        "branch": "C",
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        "finding": "Created Rockbridge Network LLC as the distinct for-profit donor-outreach manager."
      },
      {
        "branch": "D",
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        "finding": "Created first-generation 1789 portfolio nodes and separated federal contracts from Vulcan's conditional loan commitment."
      }
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    "research_question": "Run the next recursive depth from the Palantir dataset and report depth during execution.",
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      "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tech-donor-network-co-founded-by-jd-vance-seeks-push-america-right-2024-08-20/",
      "https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4339788/office-of-strategic-capital-agrees-to-joint-700m-conditional-loan-commitment-wi/",
      "https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-blumenthal-kim-sound-alarm-on-potential-for-donald-trump-jr-linked-companies-to-profit-off-department-of-defense-contract-awards-loans/"
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  "date_added": "2026-07-26T00:45:00Z",
  "date_updated": "2026-07-26T00:45:00Z",
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      "kind": "public_disclosure_index",
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      "title": "Trump appointee financial disclosures",
      "url": "https://projects.propublica.org/trump-team-financial-disclosures/search/?q=Palantir+OR+PLTR"
    },
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      "credibility": 0.95,
      "kind": "major_media",
      "publisher": "Reuters",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-26T00:45:00Z",
      "title": "Tech donor network co-founded by JD Vance seeks to push America to the right",
      "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tech-donor-network-co-founded-by-jd-vance-seeks-push-america-right-2024-08-20/"
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    }
  ],
  "summary": "Completed depth-4 expansion and emitted four depth-5 targets.",
  "tags": [
    "palantir",
    "auto-dig",
    "research-pass",
    "depth-4"
  ],
  "title": "Palantir recursive pass — depth 4 contracts, ethics and portfolio",
  "verification": {
    "methods": [
      "official award reconciliation",
      "public disclosure review",
      "entity resolution",
      "counterevidence review"
    ],
    "status": "reviewed",
    "verified": true
  },
  "version": 1,
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    "max_depth": 4,
    "priority": 1.0,
    "queue": "palantir-recursive",
    "recursion_depth": 4,
    "research_status": "completed",
    "root_target_id": "starintel:org:palantir-technologies-inc"
  }
}