As much as I agree with you... I think it's most likely that the US NSA, UK's MI(whatever), Israel's Mossad and a bunch of other secret services all cooperate with each other. No way these guys get taken down, and no way that the sanctions that have been nominally announced actually get enforced at the murky, intransparent bottom layer of the secret services.

Someone has to crack open the phones of drug kingpins, terrorists etc. after all.