Robert David Steele, the top-rated Amazon reviewer who recently admitted Webster G. Tarpley’s 9/11 Synthetic Terror “is the strongest of the 770+ books” he has reviewed for the online bookseller—and thus he believes there is enough evidence to have the Bush cabal do the perp walk in snazzy orange jumpsuits—told Alex Jones he thinks “that Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government—that is a huge mistake and I’m hoping they’ll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off…. they were heavily in bed with the Central Intelligence Agency, the office of research and development…. If Google is indeed starting to do harm then I think it’s important that be documented and publicized.”

Of course, ending a relationship with the CIA is akin to ending a relationship considered vital to Don Corleone or the Stracci, Barzini, Cuneo, and Tattaglia crime families. No doubt Eric Schmidt, former chief executive officer of Novell, and current Google CEO harbors no desire to sleep with the fish.

I exaggerate, but only a little.

It is no exaggeration, however, to state that the CIA has fished around for top drawer search technology for some time. Back in 2002, shortly after “everything changed,” the CIA went shopping at Inktomi for “search and retrieval technology,” according to Internet News. Inktomi entered into a business relationship with In-Q-Tel, described as the “venture capital arm of the American Central Intelligence Agency,” that is to say a front company set-up to roll investment hungry technology companies into the spook Borg Hive. According to Buzzy “Put Options” Krongard, a onetime investment banker and former Executive Director of the CIA, In-Q-Tel presented a “wonderful model… in accessing the capabilities of the private sector,” that is to say snooping and sleuthing by way of the private sector.

“Even while Google presents a public image of vigorously protecting its users’ privacy, it has quietly provided assistance to several U.S. intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, as the U.S. prosecutes its war on terrorism,” writes Michael Hampton for Homeland Stupidity. “In addition, Google may be providing assistance to the National Security Agency.”

According to Hampton and IT professionals, the CIA is not simply interested in the search capability of Google, but those of us who use that unparalleled capability. “The intelligence community appears to be interested in data mining Google’s vast store of information on each user who uses Google’s services. Google collects data on each user’s search queries, which web sites users visited after making a query, and through its Google Analytics service, can also track users on cooperating web sites. It’s not clear what level of access to or how much of this information has been made available to intelligence agencies.” Hampton continues:

The contractor, who spoke on a not-for-attribution basis, said that at least one US intelligence agency he declined to identify is working to “leverage Google’s [user] data monitoring” capability as part of an effort by the IC to glean from this data information of “national security intelligence interest” in the war on terror. . . .

One of the sources did say, however, that the CIA’s Office of Research and Development “has been giving them additional money and guidance and requirements.”

Last November, the CIA—through In-Q-Tel—issued notices to sell $2.2 million worth of Google stock.

Robert David Steele, intelligence veteran and CEO of OSS.Net, Inc. which sponsored last week’s event, told HSToday.us Tuesday evening that “Google is being actively hypocritical and deceptive in playing up its refusal to help the Department of Justice when all along it has been taking money and direction for elements of the US Intelligence Community, including the Office of Research and Development at the Central Intelligence Agency, In-Q-Tel, and in all probability, both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command.”

Steele added, “I have no doubt that Google, in its arrogance, decided it could make a deal with the devil and not get caught.”

Hampton suggests blocking all Google cookies, but even “with cookies blocked, a limited amount of user tracking is possible, so unless you really are a terrorist, it probably isn’t worth the trouble.” Of course, as the CIA is responsible for creating a large share of what passes for terrorism, tracking terrorists through Google is not really necessary.

In fact, they are interested in tracking and profiling you and me, not the dead Osama.

But if this does not make you paranoid enough, consider a post at Internet Portal Community Watch. Ebay is run by Richard T. Schlosberg III,
former graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. MySpace, of course, is now owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. According to blogger Josh Smith, the “social networking” site Facebook is a data-gathering operation that received initial funding from Peter Thiel, who is connected to James Breyer, who is the former chairman of In-Q-Tel. Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal. Yahoo, the IPVW post asserts, is a possible “U.S. Military or psyOP Pentagon front.” Yahoo director Ed Kozel worked at Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and SRI International. Chad Hurley, a former PayPal employee, is CEO and Co-Founder of YouTube. As we know, Google bought up YouTube, and Google’s connection to the CIA is less than speculative.

Finally, if you’re thinking about using Yahoo over Google, think again. Earlier this year, Michael Callahan, Yahoo’s senior vice president and general counsel, under “cross-examination during a congressional hearing … refused … to say whether the company opens its records for government surveillance [that is, the NSA] without a court order,” according to ZDNet. Although the NSA is supposedly restricted by its charter from “acquiring information concerning the domestic activities of United States persons,” it has done so habitually since its establishment on November 4, 1952. The NSA captures civilian telephone, fax, satellite, and data traffic through ECHELON. It runs “the largest database ever assembled in the world,” containing call detail records of all calls (domestic and international) placed through AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth.