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Source: Aljazeera America
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 years revelations about NSA spying.
... 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.
... The classified briefing cited by Alexander was part of a secretive government initiative known as the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), and his email provides some rare information about what the ESF entails, the identities of some participant tech firms and the threats they discussed.
Read more: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Or something like that.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)every time I've posted something about google (and there has been a lot to post about in recent weeks), the thread dropped like an anvil...I maintained from the start that google and other corporations were willing partners in this whole thing and that their "helpless victim" act was a bullshit PR ploy...Imagine my surprise when damn near everyone bought it...
Maybe if you put "Greenwald/Snowden" in the thread title we'll get more people reading this...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)None of the usual suspects even want to touch this thread...Not surprised in the least...