Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA
The Mac Observer Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA (l. to r.): Loeb / AFP / Getty; Ramson / Polaris National Security Agency head and Internet giant’s executives have coordinated through high-level policy discussions May 6, 2014 5:00AM ET by Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold Email exchanges between National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt suggest a far cozier working relationship between some tech firms and the U.S. government than was implied by Silicon Valley brass after last year’s revelations about NSA spying. Disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the agency’s vast capability for spying on Americans’ electronic communications prompted a number of tech executives whose firms cooperated with the government to insist they had done so only when compelled by a court of law. But Al Jazeera has obtained two sets of email communications dating from a year before Snowden became a household name that suggest not all cooperation was under pressure. On the morning of June 28, 2012, an email from Alexander invited Schmidt to attend a four-hour-long “classified threat briefing” on Aug. 8 at a “secure facility in proximity to the San Jose, CA airport.”Alexander and http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html
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