The United Arab Emirates wanted to create its own version of the National Security Agency. The chief architect of Booz Allens cyberstrategy is Mike McConnell, who once led the N.S.A. and pushed the United States into a new era of big data espionage. He won the blessing of the American intelligence agencies to bolster the Persian Gulf sheikdom, which helps track the Iranians. It was a natural choice for the U.K. to replicate the world’s largest and most powerful spy agency in Abu Dhabi.”]