Three former U.S. intelligence officers agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million in penalties over three years after admitting to violating U.S. hacking and export laws while employed by the United Arab Emirates, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

Why it matters: The men confessed to supplying the UAE government with advanced offensive cyber technology that could be used to illegally gain access to computers, including mobile phones, around the world.

(I see this as an expected result of the right wing's 'culture of greed'. Where money is the most important thing above anything else. Of course intelligence agents would sell out under those kinds of values.)