[chc]

You're suggesting that a scrappy startup in a field everybody else wrote off which eventually grew to be one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley was actually just a front and not a real business the whole time? That strains credulity — really far.

[WorldWideWayne]

Ever heard of Operation Mockingbird? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

[skj]

Project mockingbird, therefore the NSA established Google as a front company for spying on the population?

[WorldWideWayne]

So, the alphabet agencies have done it before but there's zero probability that they'll do it again right?

Yeah, makes perfect sense.