With 911 it became crystal clear that this also obscures monetary flow of deadly criminal actors, deadly at scale and deadly at random targets, 911, Madrid, ...
Wouldn't you think that this would change policies and create a push to more transparency of monetary flow?
Currently the policy values the option of tax evasion at scale higher than the option of controlling in the sense of understanding money flow.
Nobody can snap their fingers and change how every country in the globe regulates their businesses though. The basic principle of companies owning other companies is too fundamental to abolish, and if you can create one link then you can make chains and these can be complex. There are no magic wands to solve this, so it's going to take perseverance and hard work, and continuing pressure on politicians.
Making the US the largest tax haven in the world.
* https://fsi.taxjustice.net/en/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Secrecy_Index
Seems that South Dakota is very popular for it:
* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer...
BTW, that's quite a myth. There were never bank accounts where the banks didn't know who the client was. But not everybody at the banks had access to the info what account belonged to which person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_bank_account
Of course if you as a foreign country could get info about your own citizens having bank accounts is a different question (and that has luckily changed in recent years).
Most of the intelligence and terrorism laws that were set in place specifically target non-americans and international surveillance so I don't really get your point.
There is literally no participant in the article who has any connection to the United States, not even the city involved. It’s likely given the dramatis personae that none of them may ever have set foot in the US in their lives. Yet somehow this is a matter of US law???
And how again is this somehow connected with some incident on the other side of the planet 20 years ago?
If you only think the intelligence apparatus of the US only watches within the border of the country that's a bit naive. Especially after what we know about the Snowden leaks (International submarine cables tapped, dragnet like collection of communications in all countries,...). The fact that there's no Americans involved is irrelevant to the question in this case.