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Google Re-establishes
Relationship With Government Spies
Search engine company has a history of involvement
with intelligence agencies
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 Google
is set to establish a working relationship with the National
Security Agency, the government spy force responsible for warrantless
monitoring of Americans' phone calls and e-mails in the wake
of 9/11.
The announcement comes in response to recent cyber attacks
on the search engine company, which it says emanated from China.
Anonymous sources tell the Washington
Post that "the alliance is being designed
to allow the two organizations to share critical information",
adding that the agreement will not allow the NSA access to users'
search details or e-mails.
The sources also said that the NSA, the largest intelligence
agency in the country, may also involve the FBI and the Department
of Homeland Security in the project.
"The critical question is: At what level will the American
public be comfortable with Google sharing information with
NSA?" said Ellen McCarthy, president of the Intelligence
and National Security Alliance, an organization of current
and former intelligence and national security officials that
seeks ways to foster greater sharing of information between
government and industry.
Greg Nojeim, senior counsel for the Center for Democracy &
Technology, a privacy advocacy group, told the Post that companies
have statutory authority to share information with the government
to protect their rights and property.
In 2008, Google denied that it had any role in the NSA's "terrorist"
surveillance program, after first
refusing to say if they have provided users private
data to the federal government under the warrantless wiretapping
initiative.
However, it is clear where
Google's interests lie given that the company is
supplying the software, hardware and tech support to US intelligence
agencies in the process of creating a vast closed source database
for global spy networks to share information.
The government supply arm of Google has also reportedly entered
into a number of other contracts, details of which it says it
cannot share.
Google's partnership with the intelligence network is not new.
As
we reported in late 2006, An ex-CIA agent Robert
David Steele has claimed sources told him that CIA seed money
helped get the company off the ground
Speaking to the Alex Jones Show, Steele elaborated on previous
revelations by making it known that the CIA helped
bankroll Google at its very inception. Steele named Google's
CIA point man as Dr. Rick Steinheiser, of the Office of Research
and Development.
"I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor
and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now
floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical
activities, and it doesn't fund what I call the open source
world," said Steele, citing "trusted individuals"
as his sources for the claim.
"They've been together for quite a while," added
Steele.
Recent disclosures under the Freedom Of Information Act have
also revealed that the federal
government has several contracts with social media
outlets, including Youtube which is owned by Google. The contracts
are said to waive rules on monitoring users and permit companies
to track visitors to government web sites for advertising purposes.
The NSA's involvement with Google should be treated as highly
suspect, given the agency's recent track record and its blatant
disregard for the Fourth Amendment.
A set
of documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) in June 2007 showed that US telco AT&T
allowed the NSA to set up a 'secret room' in its offices to
monitor internet traffic.
The discovering prompted a lawyer
for an AT&T engineer to allege that "within
two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning
a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans” That is
BEFORE 9/11, before the nation was embroiled in the freedom
stripping exercise commonly known as the "war on terror"
had even begun.
In late 2007, reports
circulated that the NSA has increasing control
over SSL, now called Transport Layer Security, the cryptographic
protocol that provides secure communications on the internet
for web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, and other data
transfers.
In other words the agency is capable of intercepting and reading
your emails and instant messages in real time. It is now beyond
doubt that the NSA's "terrorist surveillance program"
now extends to this.
In 2008, the ACLU also uncovered
details pertaining to a secret Justice Department
memo from October 2001 that reveals the Bush administration
effectively suspended the Fourth Amendment where domestic counter
terrorism operations are concerned.
It is almost certain that the memo was written to provide a
legal basis for the NSA to begin its warrantless wiretapping
program, which was initiated in the same month.
Two years ago, the US National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell
announced that plans were been drawn up for
a cyberspace spying program that would make the
current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk
in the park".
The plan involved giving the government the authority to examine
the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search. The
message is clear - government spies want unfettered access to
the web searches and emails of Americans. Any relationship between
the government and Google must be considered with this in mind.
After 9/11 the work of 16 different intelligence agencies,
including the CIA and the giant National Security Agency, which
eavesdrops on international communications, as well as the Energy
Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration was centralized
under the office of the Director
of National Intelligence.
Over decades we have witnessed the evolution of Government
surveillance programs and information databases
targeting citizens. We are now witnessing the centralization
of this vast control grid Panopticon.
The latest marriage between Google and the intelligence community
also comes in the wake of increased calls
to introduce a global licensing system to police
the Internet in the name of preventing cyber warfare.
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