As the WSJ points out, none of this is especially shocking. Foreign companies and their products have been involved in suppressing the Arab Spring, and from the Middle East to East Asia, multinationals have made hefty profits from providing surveillance capacity, security contracting and arms sales to repressive regimes. ThisSIGINT Road, if you will, is the e-version of the old Silk Road running from Beijing to Tunis with many stops along the way.
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