I traced the documented lineage from the Total Information Awareness program, killed unanimously by the Senate in 2003, through Palantir Technologies' CIA-funded founding, to the 2025 construction of a master database merging IRS, Social Security, DHS, and Medicaid records through a single API built in 30 days. Every claim is sourced to federal court filings, congressional records, federal contracting databases, or the published words of the people involved. The architecture Congress voted to stop never died. It privatized.