SWIFT search worked around State Department
Conspicuously absent in the SWIFT caper was any mention of State.
According to State, its Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism is charged with directing, managing, and coordinating all U.S. agencies’ efforts to develop and provide counter-terrorism financing programs. here Treasury notified the central banks of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan about the programme, but not the governments, where State would play a role. here