You are a conspiracy theorist.

> Google can do the sort of spying the US government can't constitutionally do, then hand that over to the government, constitutionally

This is an agenda-driven redefinition of the word "spy" that I find disingenuous in the extreme.

> It's all stagecraft. Same for Apple, Amazon, Intel, etc. Eric Schmidt runs HRCs campaign. Al Gore is on Apple's board.

Firstly: Eric Schmidt founded a company designed to legally channel lots of money via analytics expertise into his favorite candidate, like every rich person does under the current set of laws. Neither of us has to like it, but he did not "run her campaign" and if they actually did? Wow, not a great job there.

As for Al Gore?

I've worked with Al Gore. He did some advisory work for my financial data startup, as part of our first round's venture firm. Our data was some of the most valuable data about consumers that can possibly exist, and had incredible applications for both surveillance and law enforcement.

To the best of my knowledge, we were never pressured to hand over a byte to anyone. Quite the opposite. I specifically remember a conversation where he mentioned user data privacy was the single most important priority he felt we could have.

So between my lying eyes, ears, and email history and your wild gesticulations about the evil overlordship, I'm gonna have to lean towards my own personal experience.

Unless, of course, you got some actual evidence and not a room full of old coffee cups and red string up on the walls.