 Consequently, the European Union (EU) obtained an agreement that they could send an investigating magistrate as High Representative of the EU to the United States of America in order to monitor the TFTP activities.This magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguière, had a permanent office in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Department of Treasury.Disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden alleged the NSA was systematically undermining the SWIFT Agreement.