Could FBI director Mueller make a deal with Google?
Feed this into the conspiracy machine.
Google's own network carries 10% of Internet traffic (ElReg,) Eric Schmidt-head does not care about your privacy (ElReg, et al,) Obama's campaign CTO wanted to move all of the White House email functionality to Google (ElReg, I'm sure,) Google was originally tapped to spear-head the data back-end of a national smart-meter program.
Google is a big company with to which the Administration holds obvious attraction.
FBI director throws the whole data retention bit into the ring again. Small ISPs, webmail providers, hosting providers, and such ilk, cannot afford the required storage.
Google is in a perfect position to step in and store the retention data for these providers, or even provide proxy services with the included retention storage, of course with the obvious lack of privacy guarantee (you shouldn't be doing it in the first place, right?) Google is in the perfect position to provide replacement services for companies which close shop in the face of conformance or fines. Google would also be perfectly placed to become the provider for a national broadband infrastructure build-out should it actually be pushed through (I seem to recall Google co-authored the report supporting the build-out.)
I am not drawing any conclusions, just feeding in some data. Ignoring Google and considering the retention missive on its own is enough to conclude an anti-private business motive since, frankly, private business is a threat to security. Public sector is a threat to productivity, but we can deal with that later.
Paris, a threat to pubic productivity.