EU Springs Into Action, Condemns US
Charles Johnson
Mon Nov 28, 2005 at 7:50 am PST • Views: 215
Our European guardians of morality are about to slap the United States on the wrist again, while making spineless deals with Islamofascist states like Iran: EU May Suspend Nations With Secret Prisons.
BERLIN - The United States has told the European Union it needs more time to respond to media reports that the CIA set up secret jails in some European nations and transported terror suspects by covert flights, the top EU justice official said Monday.
Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini also warned that that any of the 25 bloc nations found to have operated secret CIA prisons could have their EU voting rights suspended.
The Council of Europe — the continent’s main human rights watchdog — is investigating the allegations, and EU justice official Jonathan Faul last week formally raised the issue with White House and U.S. State Department representatives, Frattini said.
“They told him, ‘give us the appropriate time to evaluate the situation.’ Right now, there is no response,” he said.
The CIA has refused to comment on the European investigation.
Frattini said suspending EU voting rights would be justified under the EU treaty, which stipulates that the bloc is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, and that a persistent breach of these principles can be punished.
Clandestine detention centers would violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
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