%0 Journal Article
%T Tracking terrorist finances: The SWIFT program and the American Anti-Terrorist Finance Regime
%A David Bruce Bulloch
%J Amsterdam Law Forum
%D 2012
%I VU University Library
%X This article examines the political and legislative history of a formerly classified anti-terrorist finance program initiated in the days after 9/11 that subpoenaed millions of financial records from the Belgian-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) without the knowledge of European authorities.  The European outrage in response to its public disclosure in 2006 ¡ª and the subsequent struggle to generate support for the continuation of the program ¡ª has been interpreted by many as further evidence of a strategic divide concerning American and European efforts to thwart terrorism.  This research will investigate the dramatic changes to the American anti-terrorist finance regime after 9/11, and will demonstrate that the European reluctance to cooperate with this program represents a fundamental disagreement concerning the prioritization of privacy rights rather than an unwillingness to take the steps necessary to combat the financing of terror.
%K War on Terror
%K Surveillance
%K Financial Regulation
%K Privacy
%K Transatlantic Cooperation
%U http://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/238