The spies are coming in from the cold

Formerly secretive agencies are putting on a public face with their fate in the balance following November's election

Alex Karp, the co-founder and CEO of Palantir, a once-secretive company that was partly funded by the CIA’s venture capital arm, talked extensively about its work Friday on Bill Maher’s show. He touted its use of “weapons-grade software” to help national security agencies identify threats, win wars and keep the peace, boasting, “We had the biggest impac…