Note that they already had "front door" access negotiated: > One of the most contentious Snowden revelations — first reported on September 8, 2013 by Globo and

Note that they already had "front door" access negotiated: > One of the most contentious Snowden revelations — first reported on September 8, 2013 by Globo and then repeated a week later by Der Spiegel — was that NSA’s Tailored Operations group was hacking SWIFT, the international financial transfer messaging system. It was contentious because when the servers moved to Europe, the US and EU negotiated access for the US, access with protections for Europeans that happened to be oversold. [...] > A number of people have been arguing that the mostly Middle Eastern financial institutions that seem to be the focus here — things like the Al Quds Bank for Development and Investment — are legitimate intelligence targets. And they are, within the framework of NSA’s spying in the US. But that ignores that the US had an agreement in place about what legitimate targets were (which, according to MEPs who tried to oversee the agreement, were violated anyway). Also, a number of our Arab allies may not be too happy to see their own banks targeted. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/04/14/nsa-continued-double-dipping-at-swift-even-after-it-was-exposed/ https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/04/14/nsa-continued-double-d...