actually, i think it would be highly doubtful that our government would have any likely traceable involvement in such things. that's what privately contracted companies are for, contracted to do other things entirely, by other organizations, in a branched out structural formation, and while simultaneously obtaining the information our government is seeking they are also producing whatever else it is the company they work for is being paid to do. like analyze the price and quantity of rice and potential crop shortages and the effects on various populations throughout the world, etc.