Case study: A SWIFT Affair

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After 9/11, as part of the Bush administration War on Terrorism, the US established the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) to access financial transactions on the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) network.

This was revealed by a series of articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times in June 2006.