I was curious what the actual justification for the data grab is. The article buries it halfway down, but tl;dr the feds think that some of the scopes have been

I was curious what the actual justification for the data grab is. The article buries it halfway down, but tl;dr the feds think that some of the scopes have been illegally exported (by parties unknown) in violation of arms-trafficking laws, and they think that learning where they're being used will help them track down the exporters. "Reports online" (for all they're worth) claim that the Taliban got some of them.