This is wishful thinking. I have two ideas that are just as well supported by the complete lack of facts that we all have. First, that Google is setting us up

This is wishful thinking. I have two ideas that are just as well supported by the complete lack of facts that we all have. First, that Google is setting us up to believe a half-truth related to FISA letter counts. There are such numbers, we will get them, and they will not include all surveillance conducted with Google's data but anyone who says that will be back to being a crank. Second, that Google perceives an existential threat to their company along two related but separate axis. The first is that their customers will leave, but that is less likely than the second. The second is that their best employees will leave. Googlers will not want to consider themselves as clerks in the Ministry of Truth. If they and their peers began to think about it in that way, then they will leave and the business will eventually die. If their employees have a credible excuse to think of their employer as a noble crusader, then this threat is significantly mitigated.