 After the covert action was disclosed, the so-called SWIFT Agreement was negotiated between the United States and the European Union.A series of articles published on June 23, 2006, by the "New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal" and the "Los Angeles Times" revealed that the United States government, specifically the Treasury and the CIA, had a program to access the SWIFT transaction database after the September 11th attacks.According to the June 2006 "New York Times" article, the program helped lead to the capture of an al-Qaeda operative known as Hambali in 2003, believed to be the mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombing, as well as helped identify a Brooklyn man convicted in 2005 for laundering money for an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan.