We know the NSA told AT&T and the telcos to give them access to tap the Internet backbones many years ago, so how do we know the NSA or even the CIA hasn't had

We know the NSA told AT&T and the telcos to give them access to tap the Internet backbones many years ago, so how do we know the NSA or even the CIA hasn't had a similar secret agreement in place with Google? In-Q-Tel, the CIA's Silicon Valley venture fund, has had a few business relationships with Google, going back to Google's origin—just google it. Perhaps a little quid pro quo here and there? Given that Google is the de facto entry point to the web, imagine how valuable it would be watch any of the few million names on the terrorist watch list, and log their search queries and all their user activity across Google's major products? In this day and age, how could any terrorist cells even form a TV worthy plot without using a tool like Google to gather information? I think this kind of surveillance is child play however, since terrorism is really about something else entirely. Imagine being able to watch the queries and traffic of dissidents from enemy nations? If you're a spy agency, you have two goals: recruit human assets, and fake out enemy intel agencies. Since you want to find well placed people who will assist you in secret, what better way to find them than to wait for them to reveal themselves via their Google searches? You might now say "hey wait a sec, this could turn into tinfoil hat crazy talk!" But there's an even further spin to Google espionage to consider. If our gov't doesn't do it, certainly foreign gov't intel agents will try it. How many Chinese software engineers does Google employ for instance? Russian? Israeli? Our national security cannot afford to have double agents working within Google to pass this data to foreign nations. Hence we must to do it ourselves, in order to dis-incentivize other nations from doing it. Which ironically forces the arms-race. You've got to love Prisoner's Dilemmas and the logic of destroying the village to save it. Believe it or not!