Blame is being passed around Washington over a strike that killed 123 children in Iran, and Palantir is being pushed to the front of the line.

• The strike hit a site that US files still listed as an IRGC military base, but it had been turned into a school within the last decade.
• Centcom's targeting data goes back decades and was never updated, so the intelligence behind the strike was old and sloppy.
• Palantir, which builds the software the Pentagon uses to sort that data, is now taking much of the public blame.
• Nobody in the chain — the military, the intelligence side, or the contractors — wants to own the mistake.

Outlook: Expect more finger-pointing and pressure on Palantir as details of the targeting failure keep leaking out.