The Palantir Identity - Decker As A State Assassin

Is Mass Murder Travis Decker State Sponsored? The Facts And Metadata Say Yes.

Jul 08, 2025

—field notes, George Webb, July 8th, 2025

Here are the notes from the live stream this morning’s three-hour and thirty-minute live stream and on-the-ground investigations.

1 Boots on the Ground & the Smell of Fresh Asphalt

Pull into Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and the first thing you taste is creosote—brand-new blacktop where the dirt lot used to be. You’d think repaving a mountain pull-out at midnight was a county beautification project. It’s not. It’s a crime-scene scrub: two battalion chiefs bled out here on June 29, cell phones ablaze with “Battalion 3” telemetry, and 24 hours later, the lot gleamed like a Costco parking space.

That’s your opening clue that we’re not dealing with a backyard spree killer—we’re staring at the footprint of a program. Asphalt is the bleach; the program is Armed Diplomatic Security Services—ADSS. Different label, same beast we met in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 and Wuhan, China in 2019.

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Travis Lee Decker—ex-173rd Airborne, three dead children, a ponytail you can spot from orbit—sits at the hub of this wheel.

The sheriff says he’s an “armed and dangerous fugitive.” I say he’s an ADSS operator on a domestic training loop, tailored to sell Palantir Gotham to every sheriff’s department west of the Mississippi. One manhunt, one demo reel, one software contract. That’s the scam—and you can smell it in the tar.

2 What ADSS Really Is (and Why Local Law Won’t Touch It)

I’ve watched this shell-game since the Benghazi trial, front row, Alexandria federal court. On paper the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) protects ambassadors and stamps visas. Off paper it maintains a razor-thin carve-out—Armed DSS—where cleared contractors get State-Department badges, .300 Blk suppressors, and a little pouch that says “Vienna Convention Article 37: hands off.”

Once a shooter carries that laminate, FBI warrants bounce, county sheriffs fold, and camera evidence goes “missing.” Exactly what we just saw in Kootenai County.

The attraction for CIA is obvious: you need wet work but want a non-CIA return address? Sign your shooter into ADSS, chain-store the passports, and presto—Title 22 immunity. No FOIA, no oversight. State is the laundromat, ADSS the rinse-cycle.

The attraction for Palantir is pure silicon: without a live manhunt you can’t demo find-fix-finish analytics to a county board that still balances its budget on Bingo night. Stitch the two incentives together and you birth what I call The Palantir Identity: deniable gun plus premium software, field-tested on American soil.

3 Benghazi → Wuhan → Bear Creek: Same Skeleton, New Meat

Flashback to October 2019. I’m mapping NATO tail-numbers at Wuhan’s Military World Games when the Supreme Allied Commander’s DSS detail lands with a pallet of Palantir laptops. That athlete’s village morphed into COVID ground zero three weeks later. Coincidence? Maybe. But the playbook is crystal: Palantir Gotham ingests every Bluetooth ping in the village while Armed DSS guards the brass. Overseas beta complete.

July 2025, Bear Creek Transfer Camp—a horse-packing campground 60 miles south of Sun Valley—three campers snap iPhone pictures of “a man with gauge earrings, a devil-may-care ponytail, and a V-22 Osprey T-shirt.” They upload the shots; U.S. Marshals confirm “high-probability match” to Decker 36 hours later—after Alex Karp’s Gulfstream touches down in Hailey. Overseas beta becomes domestic gamma. New meat, same skeleton.

4 Paul Whelan & the Sniper Supply Chain

People still ask why I spent six months on Paul Whelan, the ex-Marine, cooling heels in Lefortovo Prison. Because Whelan was the recruitment hinge. His HR files list 38 ex-Spetsnaz riflemen “referred to cleared-contractor employment.”

His seat assignments on Roger Krone’s Leidos jet match Palantir meet-and-greets from Bucharest to Doha. When Moscow pinched him in 2018, that pipeline froze. The program needed fresh blood. Enter Travis Decker: Fort Benning jump-badge, fluent in Dari, known to moonlight security gigs in Khost Province. Same résumé pattern, new geography—Snake River instead of Korengal.

ADSS shooters don’t just happen; they’re farmed. Whelan cultivated one farm; Decker is the transplant harvest. The State-Palantir assembly line hums on.

5 June 29 — The “Battalion-3” Massacre as Version 0.9

Scroll back two weeks before Bear Creek. 13:20 hours: Fire Chiefs Harwood and Morrison radio a traffic stop on Canfield Mountain: a white van blocks a logging road. 13:50: radio static, two shotgun warning shots, multiple rifle cracks, then .223 automatic fire—probably, rifle calibers. 14:00: first SWAT units roll; 14:22: thermal drone up.

They stay pinned for six hours, helicopter overhead, snipers in treeline. 300 officers, zero forward movement. Ask any ranger in North Idaho: you don’t box 300 cops with a pump-action 12-gauge. You need someone on an elevated perch with a free-floating AR and optics. Someone like—oh—an SF-trained ADSS contractor.

Now watch the cleanup: helmet-cams “malfunction,” drone footage “corrupted,” white-van lot paved by dawn. Legacy “Battalion 3” tablets become charred exhibit A in a grant proposal titled “Integrated Law-Enforcement Situational Awareness—Powered by Palantir.” The massacre is a proof-of-concept. Version 0.9 for government use only.

6 Bear Creek “Sasquatch” & the $20 K Decoy Reward

ADSS marketing hates a cold trail, so July 5 they goose the story: a family at Bear Creek thinks it saw Decker. Ponytail bobbing, tat sleeves showing—blatant. Note the staging: Bear Creek sits on the same forest road that feeds billionaire flights into Sun Valley each July.

Camp sighting → media frenzy → marshal’s $20 K reward. Twenty grand is a tip jar, folks. The real fugitive bounties start at six figures. That number’s purpose is to incite phone traffic Palantir can scrape and to reassure Decker’s paymasters that locals will chase shiny pennies while he toggles security detail for Gulfstream-V tail N628PL (Karp’s bird).

I call it the Sasquatch cycle: make the cryptid visible just long enough for tourists to snap blurry pics, then vanish him before boots arrive. Every Sasquatch cycle feeds Gotham fresh times and targets, which the sales team prints into slide decks.

7 Billionaire Boys’ Camp—Why “Catch Him in Ketchum” Matters

Allen & Co.’s Sun Valley retreat is Davos with better fly-fishing: 175 private jets, Fortune 50 CEOs, “Hollywood Ten” moguls, half the AI oligarchy, and a roaming quarantine of bodyguards with throat mics. Last year I camped the tarmac, filmed tail-numbers.

Six days later, an assassin’s bullet grazed Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. This year, Decker’s ping lands within helicopter range of the same runway the morning Alex Karp arrives. Proximity is policy: Palantir always runs a live-fire lab where the C-suite can kick tires. Think of it as a Costco sample tray—only the toothpick holds predictive homicide, not teriyaki chicken.

Harriman invented Sun Valley to hawk real-estate; Karp repurposes it to hawk kill-ware. You want to collar Decker? Don’t bushwhack in Sawtooth. Park three German Shepherds at Atlantic Aviation Hailey and let K-9 noses tour each G-V cargo hatch. Scratch-and-sniff justice, 15 minutes flat.

8 Palantir’s Business Model: Find-Fix-Finish for Counties

Why burn first responders and kindergarten teachers in a media bonfire? Because fear sells technology.

Palantir’s county-gotham SKU runs eight to 40 million a year depending on drone integration. Elected sheriffs blog about “asymmetric threats” and “poly-victim corridors”; procurement managers sign. No fear, no sale. Decker is the fear engine. The flow-chart is brutally linear:

Create chaos – two murdered battalion chiefs, one kindergarten teacher shot in the head, rumor of hitch-hiking madman.
Deny clarity – scrub cams, pave lots, issue gag orders.
Offer solution – Gotham for Rural Emergency Fusion. “Remember Decker? We wouldn’t lose him twice.”
Close deal – Palantir demo bus pulls into Boise; legislature funds pilot.

It isn’t a conspiracy theory; it’s a revenue funnel. And like any SaaS funnel, it needs a case study. Travis Decker is the clickable thumbnail.

9 Chasing Infrastructure, Not Ghosts

Citizen journalists burn out chasing the ghost—did Decker hike 30 miles? Steal a Subaru? Dye his ponytail? Wrong target set. You hunt the life-support:

Tail-numbers: N628PL (Palantir), N45OAR (Saudi-insured med-evac King Air that flew the two dead chiefs), CN-B351 (Trimble drone van manifest).
Procurement footprints: Idaho’s 2024 RFP “Next-Gen Incident Command Platform”; line-items mention “real-time FLIR ingestion.” That’s Gotham.
Corporate shells: Check Cayman registries—Bridgewater Advanced Services Ltd., Sangamon Logistics LLC—the same three pay ADSS day-rates from Benghazi to Bogotá.
Data-denials: Whenever a sheriff says “video corrupted,” file the timestamp; GIS-overlay those gaps—you’ll find they align with Palantir drone orbits.
K-9 integration: Kevin Timmer’s scratch-dog unit can smell Decker’s hiking shorts through carbon fiber; one sweep of Sun Valley’s ramp would compress a $5 M manhunt to a 30-second traffic stop.

You follow those pipes and you eventually shake out the operator. Chasing hoofprints in Sawtooth is theater.

10 The Narrative End-Game & Why It Matters

Every Phoenix Program needs its climax shot. Here’s what the scriptwriters want:

Drone-cam feed—glacial blue overlay, white-hot silhouette labeled DECKER – CONFIRMED.
Sheriff steps to the podium: “Thanks to cutting-edge analytics, we neutralized the suspect with no further loss of life.”
Cut to the Palantir watermark, dissolve to county-commission vote, and scroll the contract number.

Public sighs relief, Palantir stock hits $60, sheriffs nationwide fast-track ADSS cross-badging, and the next domestic “insurgent” is no longer a deranged child-killer—it’s whoever the predictive graph points to: a pipeline protester, a rail striker, a pesky alt-journalist. That’s the quiet pivot from overseas counter-terror to homeland counter-dissent. Travis Decker is the fulcrum.

Field Orders for the OSINT Citizen Journalists

Archive Now – Rip every Kootenai radio dispatch, marshal press release, and flight ADS-B track. Palantir lawyers are already scrubbing.
Map the Asphalt – Use Planet-labs dailies; pin the pre- and post-paving imagery, push to IPFS. Asphalt is admissible.
Listen to the FOIAs – Refusals are signals; cluster them by clock-time and overlay with drone telemetry. Gap equals op.
Follow the Money – County-budget line items that mention “fusion” or “sensor agnostic ingest” invariably end up Gotham.
Educate Your Sheriff – Most sheriffs have no idea ADSS even exists. Put Title 22, Article 37 in their inbox. Friendly outreach beats ambush.
Prep for Phase Two – Decker’s capture will be cinematic. When Gotham sizzle-video hits YouTube, be ready with your scrubbed evidence of staging. Meet narrative with narrative.

Epilogue: Fear vs. Forensics

I’ve spent eight years trench-level watching how federal fear pipelines are built: Benghazi’s “security,” Wuhan’s “containment,” Idaho’s “manhunt.” The coding layer is always Palantir; the muscle layer is always some flavor of ADSS. Travis Decker is just this quarter’s billboard. The payload isn’t his next body—it’s the kill-ware subscription your county clerk signs after CNN shows the drone takedown.

So keep your nose on the asphalt, not the camp-fire smoke. Track contracts, tail-numbers, denial logs. And when the sheriff waves a holographic map on the six-o’clock news, remember: the only reason they need predictive homicide is because someone in a ponytail just beta-tested it on you.

— George Webb, still on the mountain, still following the blood trail.

Yesterday, I went to Shoshone County to ask about the murdered Kindergarten teacher who was shot in her car on the Coeur d’Alene River, and all the power was turned off at the Sheriff’s Office when I got there.

We find a power outage at the Shoshone Sheriff’s Office yesterday while I was trying to ask if a DNA swab was taken if the Kindergarten Teacher Murder to be very suspect.

George Webb in Wallace, Idaho where the local Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office experienced a power outage as he was asking if the Kindergarten Teacher Murder had been followed up on with DNA swabs.

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