Google says it has nothing to hide and wants to make data requests it gets from the U.S. government public.
In an open letter addressed to U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and FBI director Robert Mueller Tuesday, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond said that the company has consistently pushed back on overly broad government requests for users' data and that it wants permission from the government to publish requests that are barred by nondisclosure agreements.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013