Or the elites that pull their strings would be disturbed at the thought of info about their foreign financial transactions getting passed to IRS.
I say appoint a panel of bipartisan experts on intelligence. Get their consensus estimate, given the the program cost $X and was impaired or diminished by Y% due to the disclosure. Sue the new York Times on behalf of the taxpayers who funded the system - to recover the damages of its diminished effectiveness. Cite the suits by the Attorney's General over the health care costs that taxpayers were paying.
[Or the elites that pull their strings would be disturbed at the thought of info about their foreign financial transactions getting passed to IRS.]
Exactly. Also, historically, banks have not really been "squeaky clean". They'd take money from anyone, and I would imagine that foreign banks have even more "issues" than US institutions.