Non-US company CIOs will be having long conversations around their previously hyped US/five eyes cloud based infrastructure. The stories around US (five eyes too?) companies getting free corporate intel for favours - presumably on their competitiors - won't have helped.

The sucking sound we're hearing is trust in anything related to five eyes related corporate infrastructure having any integrity at all.

Yes, it's pretty clear that the DNI lied to Congress. But it is untrue that FedGov can force companies to lie. Neither AT&T nor Verizon lied: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589012-38/nsa-surveillan...

Did you read the PRISM denials?

It was very obvious that the companies were told exactly what to say. They might not be lying in a grammatical legal sense if you parse their words, but they were clearly told by someone how to deny everything.

I've read all of them. I've written about them. They're categorical.

> The government has already shown us how they are fully capable of lying, and even worse - forcing companies under their control to lie.

The government can, and does, lie.

The government can NOT force other companies to lie. Nor is the claim that Facebook & others are under the governments control remotely supported by anything resembling evidence.