GOOGLE AND THE CIA

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Human Rights, is so mad at Google for capitulating to the Chicoms he is going to hold hearings next month on the operating procedures of US Internet companies in China.

He can expect to be getting a call from CIA Director Porter Goss politely requesting that he shut up.

He’ll tell Smith he can vent for a little while longer, enough to make Google execs sweat and be receptive to the call they’ll be getting from Langley. But as soon as the Google boys turn cooperative, Smith had better turn quiet.

Google’s Chicom Collaboration presents a marvelous intelligence opportunity. The way to avoid unpleasantries such as Congressional subpoenas, it will be explained, is to have CIA analysts work closely with Google programmers to mine and exploit what the Chinese want kept out.

This will enable the development of IT tools to enable the Chinese people to circumvent Chicom Internet censorship.

Our counter-intelligence program against the Chinese will benefit enormously from the information gleaned from CIA-Google cooperation, but Porter’s people won’t go into that when they visit Mountain View.

So Porter will tell Smith it’s OK for the next few days to keep saying things like, “It is astounding that Google, whose corporate philosophy is ‘don’t be evil,’ would enable evil by cooperating with China’s censorship policies just to make a buck.”

Then pipe down, Congressman, and let the Chicom censoring commence. It will be an intel goldmine. And somehow, after a while, censoring efforts will begin to fail, then fail altogether.

That’s why bellowing conservatives might consider piping down over Google along with Chris Smith.