If you're asking whether I was the director of my agency or the CEO of Google then the answer is no. I have also not worked for the Government in about 6 years

If you're asking whether I was the director of my agency or the CEO of Google then the answer is no. I have also not worked for the Government in about 6 years or Google in 4 years so maybe everything changed the moment I left. However, I was an Assistant Director (which is a senior tech / middle management kind of level) at first an intelligence agency, and then at a similar grade in a law enforcement organization and then later a security engineer at Google. The idea that an intelligence agency (or law enforcement agency) would ask Google for help isn't far fetched, in fact when I was in law enforcement we'd ask private companies for help all the time. Some of the time they'd help, the rest of the time they tell us to come back with a warrant. Google was famously in the second category, to the point where we'd not even bother asking. Even if we had a warrant we'd hesitate because we'd expect Google to challenge the warrant in court and it'd be a huge expensive hassle. When I worked at Google it was the same, the idea of sharing private information with anyone was anathema. Engineers even being able to see private information without an audit trail and alarms going off was next to impossible. The idea of a secret extra-legal conduit of information from Google to the US Government seems so far fetched to me that I have trouble even considering it. If there is a conduit for information it's there because the US Government has some legal instrument to compel Google to create it and that Google grudgingly has accepted the instrument as valid. But what do I know, like I said, I wasn't the CEO of Google or DIRNSA. Maybe I just was never in the right rooms or policy meetings? Maybe everything I saw was staged for my benefit.