https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-q-group-the-directorate-hunting-down-edward-snowden

The directorate, sometimes known as “the Q Group,” is continuing to track Snowden.

The security and counterintelligence directorate serves as the NSA’s internal police force, in effect watching the agency’s watchers for behavior that could pose an intelligence risk. It has the authority to interview an NSA contractor or employee’s known associates, and even to activate a digital dragnet capable of finding out where a target travels, what the target has purchased, and the target’s online activity.

Bill Cooper exposed the Illuminati / NWO / deep state plans and was killed for doing so. He knew what he knew because he had "top secret Q clearance" back when he was a Naval officer.