If it doesn’t exist, why are there top secret documents about it?
If it doesn’t exist, why investigate the leak? If it was a fake memo sent to identify a potential leak, the unique wording of each version of the document would reveal who it was given to, thus identifying the leak.
Top Secret Documents - All I see referred to is “a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation” which includes the words “top secret”. It contains the seal of “Special Source Operations” which no one has ever seen or heard of before, and is allegedly the NSA term for alliances with trusted U.S. companies. It was supposedly used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the “program”. What part of this proves that such a program ever existed?
And furthermore, if the government already has “back door” access to all the data, then why does it continue to make requests to companies like Google to hand over user data? Does that make sense?
“Like other technology and communications companies, Google regularly receives requests from governments and courts around the world to hand over user data. In this report, we disclose the number of requests we receive from each government in six-month periods... http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/?metric=targets