I have done it as text for you from the Washington Post's embedded copy, because I know you are interested in what happens, and I wanted to point out one small correction. Well, it's probably not small to The Guardian.

Here's Google's filing, as text, first:

UNITED STATES FOREIGN
INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT
WASHINGTON, D.C.

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IN RE MOTION FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT
OF GOOGLE INC.'S FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO
PUBLISH AGGREGATE INFORMATION ABOUT
FISA ORDERS

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Docket No. _____

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MOTION FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT OF
GOOGLE INC.'S FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO
PUBLISH AGGREGATE INFORMATION ABOUT FISA ORDERS

COMES NOW Movant Google Inc. ("Google") pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2201 and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC") Rule of Procedure 6(d) and respectfully moves this Court for declaratory judgment, or such other relief as appropriate, that Google may disclose limited, aggregate statistics regarding Google's receipt of orders issued by this Court, if any, without violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or the FISC Rules of Procedure.¹

I. FACTS

Google is an electronic services provider that offers a wide variety of products, services, and online tools such as Gmail and Search to millions of users around the globe. Transparency is a core value at Google and the company is committed to informing its users and the public about requests it receives from government agencies around the world for the production of users' information and/or communications. Google publishes a Transparency Report conveying this

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¹ Nothing in this Motion is intended to confirm or deny that Google has received any order or orders issued by this Court.

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information in aggregate form, available at
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/. In 2013, for the first time, Google included in its Transparency Report the number of National Security Letters ("NSLs") it receives and the number of users/accounts specified, within a range and on an annual basis. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed in writing that Google could so, and to Google's knowledge, no declassification of any such information was necessary.

On June 6, 2013, The Guardian newspaper published a story mischaracterizing the scope and nature of Google's receipt of and compliance with foreign intelligence surveillance requests. In particular, the story falsely alleged that Google provides the government with "direct access" to its systems, allowing the government unfettered access to the records and communications of millions of user. The story is available at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data. The Washington Post also published a misleading story that day, alleging that the U.S. government is "tapping directly into" Google's central servers in order to surreptitiously obtain user records and communications. The story is available at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/ us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet -companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/3a0c0da8- cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html.

On June 7, 2013, Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond posted a blog entry that responded to these allegations as best it could given the constraints imposed by the government's position that even general information regarding Google's receipt of and response to foreign intelligence surveillance orders, if any, cannot be disclosed. Google clarified that the government does not have direct access to Google's servers, that Google provides information to the U.S. and other governments only in accordance with the

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law, and that Google reviews each government request and complies only if the requests appear proper and lawful. The blog post is available at
googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html.

In light of the intense public interest generated by The Guardian's and Post's erroneous articles, and others that have followed them, Google seeks to increase its transparency with users and the public regarding its receipt of national security requests, if any. On June 11, 2013, Google requested that the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation permit Google to publish the aggregate numbers regarding the receipt of national security requests, as further described below. The Department of Justice and the FBI have not classified the aggregate numbers regarding the receipt of national security requests described above. Nonetheless, the Department of Justice and FBI maintain their position that publication of such aggregate numbers is unlawful.

Google's reputation and business has been harmed by the false or misleading reports in the media, and Google's users are concerned by the allegations. Google must respond to such claims with more than generalities. Moreover, these are matters of significant weight and importance, and transparency is critical to advancing public debate in a thoughtful and democratic manner.

II. ENTITLEMENT T0 RELIEF

Google is a "communications carrier . . . or other specified person" subject to orders by this Court to assist the government in conducting electronic surveillance or other foreign intelligence collection activities pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 50 U.S.C. §§ 1801-l88lg ("FISA"). Google seeks to be transparent regarding FISA requests that may be

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or have been served upon it, if any, and to respond to false or misleading statements about the scope of its compelled disclosure under national security authorities.

In particular, Google seeks a declaratory judgment that Google has a right under the First Amendment to publish, and that no applicable law or regulation prohibits Google from publishing, two aggregate unclassified numbers: (1) the total number of FISA requests it receives, if any; and (2) the total number of users or accounts encompassed within such requests.

Goog1e's publication would disclose numbers as part of the regular Transparency Report publication cycle for National Security Letters, which covers data over calendar year time periods. There would be two new categories to cover requests made under FISA (50 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1881g):(a) total requests received and (b) total users/accounts at issue. Each of these entries will be reported as a range, rather than an actual number. That range would be the same as used by Google in its reporting of NSLs currently, in increments of one thousand, starting with zero. As with the NSL reporting, Google would have a Frequently Asked Questions section that would describe the statutory FISA authorities themselves.

To be clear, Google would not state, either in the published statistics or the FAQ, which FISA authorities the government has actually invoked to compel production of data from Google.

This Court has the power to declare that aggregate data about such orders for all providers is protected by the First Amendment and is not classified or subject to any other legal limitation on disclosure. The Court may, pursuant to a rule or inherent in its own authority, make clear that providers can publish aggregate numbers of orders received and the aggregate number of affected users under such orders.

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Accordingly, Google respectfully requests that this Court issue a declaratory judgment indicating that Google may lawfully disclose such information.

Pursuant to FISC Rule of Procedure 7(i), Google certifies that the following responsible employees for relevant matters hold security clearances: John Kent Walker Jr., General Counsel (FBI-Secret), and Richard Paul Salgado, Legal Director (FBI-Top Secret). These clearances were granted for the purpose of handling classified legal process. Google's undersigned counsel does not hold a security clearance.

DATED: June 18, 2013

Respectfully submitted,

[signature]

Albert Gidari
Perkins Coie LLP
[address, phone, fax, email]

Attorneys for Google Inc.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify this 18th day of June, 2013, that the foregoing document was served via hand delivery on the following:

Christine Gunning

Litigation Security Group

United States Department of Justice

[address]

Albert Gidari

Perkins Coie LLP

[address, phone, fax, email]

Attorneys for Google Inc.

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The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.

The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called Prism, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says.

The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims "collection directly from the servers" of major US service providers. Although the presentation claims the program is run with the assistance of the companies, all those who responded to a Guardian request for comment on Thursday denied knowledge of any such program.

The Washington Post made a stronger claim, which it then corrected to say what The Guardian said, that the document made that claim. You can still see the original claim on this page. Readers might not notice the difference, but legally, there is a huge difference.

It's like in Declarations, which are sworn to, if there is anything in there that you think is true but you can't say so by personal knowledge, you might say, "on information and belief" such and so happened. Maybe it did, and maybe it didn't, but you believe it enough to state it. For example, SCO said this about IBM and Novell in its Second Amended Complaint back in 2004:

199. Specifically, commencing on or about May 2003, Novell began falsely claiming that Novell, not SCO, owned the copyrights relating to UNIX System V. On information and belief, IBM had induced or otherwise caused Novell to take the position that Novell owned the copyrights -- a position that is flatly contradicted by the Asset Purchase Agreement. Since that time, Novell has improperly registered the same copyrights that it sold to SCO and that SCO had previously registered.

Or sometimes you might read a news article that says that So and So said today that such and such a company would be doing XYZ. The news entity isn't saying it knows. It's saying So and So said it's so.

So legally, you can say things very carefully, and that's sort of like what The Guardian article did -- it didn't say it was so, but rather that the document, which it had verified as being authentic, said it was so.

I don't know why there is a difference between the document and what the Internet companies are saying. My point is simply that The Guardian was careful in its language, even if some readers missed the distinguishing line it drew.