 Immediately following the disclosure, SWIFT released an official press statement asserting that they did give information to the United States in compliance with Treasury Department subpoenas, but claiming that "SWIFT received significant protections and assurances as to the purpose, confidentiality, oversight and control of the limited sets of data produced under the subpoenas".On 27 June 2006, it was revealed by the media that Belgium's central bank, the National Bank of Belgium, had known about the U.S. government's access to the SWIFT databases since 2002.Belgian Christian Democratic and Flemish party claimed on June 28, that the actions of the CIA with SWIFT were in breach with Belgian privacy laws.