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emmelaich on April 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking ...

And of course it works. Well.

Some of the Middle East countries want to be spied on. Imagine if a Saudi prince started embezzling. Who inside SA would even attempt to investigate.

With US spying on SWIFT, the Americans can leak a few juicy details to a few people of power in Saudi Arabia and the prince gets told to stop it.

No embarrassment for anyone, no convictions.

bigbugbag on April 17, 2017 [–]

Nice hypothetical scenario. According to Saudi prince status in the US and US usual use of such insider information I sincerely doubt this is what would happen or that's the reason why the NSA hacked SWIFT.

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