The author is Nafeez Ahmed, a British investigative journalist who has worked at various times for, among others, The Guardian and The Independent. He argues that Google is a project of the US intelligence community, and that the company plays an important role in the work of intelligence agencies trying to ensure US global dominance through control of information. Moreover, Google, according to Ahmed, is only one of the startups of this kind initiated by the CIA and NSA. The Pentagon is also involved in the creation of Google, says Insurge Intelligence. The Pentagon created a group of influential experts, officials and businessmen, providing a link between the US government and elites in the business, financial, corporate and media sectors. This group allowed circles representing America's corporate interests to escape public scrutiny and influence public policy and public opinion in the United States and around the world. The results are catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a state of constant global war and “a new initiative to transform the US military.”