"If he hasn't stepped over the line, he's just on the verge of it," Virginia Canter, counsel for ethics and anticorruption at Democracy Defenders Fund, told the Project on Government Oversight.
The Trump administration has quietly expanded technological efforts with Palantir, aiming to consolidate various data streams from agencies to potentially compile a comprehensive list of American citizens.
"The interviews were pretty strange," Qureshi said on the podcast. "You'd be chatting about philosophy for an hour and a half and it would very much just be like he would pick a topic out of thin air."