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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/27/swift_central_banks/ Europe's central banks caught in US spy scandal
[12:21:49 AM] Joe Gelet says: SWIFT eventually imposed some audits of its own on the US subpoenas, which are believed to have peaked at millions of private financial transactions. But there was a time when the US could look where it liked and no authority has been able to assess whether SWIFT's unofficial oversight of the investigation was adequate.
