U.S. may invoke 'state secrets' to squelch suit against Swift

The Belgian banking cooperative secretly let the CIA comb through millions of financial records as it tried to track terrorists' financing.

WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn once again to a favorite legal tool known as the "state secrets" privilege to try to shut down a lawsuit brought against a Belgium banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the U.S. government, court documents show.

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