Boeing lost a $4.5 billion contract for jets, soured by the Petrobras "Blackpearl" & "Blarney" slides that detailed NSA & GCHQ spying on businesses worldwide[1]

Boeing lost a $4.5 billion contract for jets, soured by the Petrobras "Blackpearl" & "Blarney" slides that detailed NSA & GCHQ spying on businesses worldwide[1]. NSA's James Clapper issued a denial "What we do not do, as we have said many times, is use our foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of – or give intelligence we collect to – US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line." By 2014 overseas contract losses to US businesses attributed to dissatisfaction with NSA spying were estimated at $180 billion [2] [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-brazil-oil-petrobras http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz... [2] https://shadowproof.com/2014/08/01/nsa-spying-costs-u-s-companies-up-to-180-billion-in-lost-overseas-business/ https://shadowproof.com/2014/08/01/nsa-spying-costs-u-s-comp...