indirect access

“They’re even looking to give the regime indirect access to the U.S. dollar through the U.S. financial system so that international companies can clear transactions with Iran through the U.S. dollar,” said Dubowitz, who is frequently criticized for his hard-line stance on Iran but has also been asked for his views on sanctions by the administration.

The Justice Department also maintained that Ms. Wolkoff had “indirect access to deliberative information, to which the first lady was privy, related to the President’s official duties on behalf of the country.”

If emergency management is one of the top priorities, then that particularly undersecretary at least has indirect access to the top; if it isn’t, the mission goes largely ignored.

But the near-simultaneous account takeovers of a number of highly sensitive Twitter accounts — including those of presidential candidates and those with two-factor authentication enabled — suggest the attackers did not simply exploit individual account owners and had at the very least indirect access to employee tools.

The Sept. 28, 2016, report also stated that Lenovo was attempting to purchase entire U.S. information technology companies as a means of gaining indirect access to classified Pentagon and military information networks.