How the CIA made Google By Nafeez Ahmed

[jakeXT]

How the CIA made Google


Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—
part 1

By Nafeez Ahmed

INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’

The origins of this ingenious strategy trace back to a secret Pentagon-sponsored group, that for the last two decades has functioned as a bridge between the US government and elites across the business, industry, finance, corporate, and media sectors. The group has allowed some of the most powerful special interests in corporate America to systematically circumvent democratic accountability and the rule of law to influence government policies, as well as public opinion in the US and around the world. The results have been catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a permanent state of global war, and a new initiative to transform the US military into Skynet.

THIS IS PART ONE. READ PART TWO HERE.

This exclusive is being released for free in the public interest, and was enabled by crowdfunding. I’d like to thank my amazing community of patrons for their support, which gave me the opportunity to work on this in-depth investigation. Please support independent, investigative journalism for the global commons.

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, western governments are moving fast to legitimize expanded powers of mass surveillance and controls on the internet, all in the name of fighting terrorism.

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[postulater]

1. i'll read later. I'm sure this will be on the greatest page.

[annabanana]

2. k&r . . .n/t

[father founding]

3. Real ?

This can't be real, it's not in the msm.

[KoKo]

4. Part 2 is the better read for those who were wading through Part 1...

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Part 1, while being a good foundation for his investigative report.. gets into too much technical background and is overwhelming for many of us readers.

Just a suggestion.

[stillwaiting]

5. and Facebook (most likely). nt

[hedda_foil]

6. I suspected this from the get go.

I remember Google's introduction blanketed the news and infotainment with puff pieces about the wonders of this new search engine back in 2002 or 2003. I had a lot less cynicism then, but something about that launch felt like propaganda.

I still use the damn thing, though.

[KoKo]

7. A better search

"Duck Duck Go"

They "say" they don't track you and it eliminates the Google clutter. Even Microsoft's BING is better than Google if you need to do really deep or complicated searches.

Like you I remember when they launched. Remember all the cute Google characters for holidays and such. They were so friendly....and it was such a great resource. It opened the World to all of us.

But.....we should have guessed. "Too Good..To Be True." Even their downloading of all the books seems to be something that isn't going to turn like we thought.

Still...it opened the World for so many of us. In many ways, though...it allowed us to hold them accountable. All that spying and stored info done for evil....still allows competitors to come forward and us to dig up articles that allow us to still access info that someday, someone will DO SOMETHING ABOUT. If we can ever take back our Country....and get prosecutions for what has been revealed.

Some Day....

[hedda_foil]

8. Some day...

At least we understand what's going on. Small comfort, but better than ignorance.