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Belgium Wants No Part of Secret Money Tracking Program

(CNSNews.com) - In an attempt to distance itself from the controversy over the U.S. secretly monitoring the financial activities of those with suspected ties to terrorists, Belgium has asked its intelligence coordination agency to look into whether the country's laws have been violated by the secret program. The U.S. subsidiary of Belgian-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) has collected confidential data and given it to the U.S. government. The preliminary results of the investigation show that only the U.S. subsidiary was involved with the secret program, leading the Belgian government to conclude that no further investigating is necessary.