NSA Spying Blowback Continues – Boeing Loses Brazil Jet Order
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
12/19/2013
First CSCO cited Government (NSA)-related cuts for its dismal results and now Boeing, considered the front-runner, has lost a $4.5 billion contract to provide jets to Brazil because, as officials exclaimed, “the NSA problem ruined it for the Americans.” Sweden’s Saab won the contract instead for 36 new fighters to be delivered by 2020. As Reuters reports, one U.S. source close to the negotiations said that whatever intelligence the spying had delivered for the American government was unlikely to outweigh the commercial cost of the revelations. “Was that worth 4 billion dollars?” the source asked.
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