Seething Euroweenies
Charles Johnson
Thu May 11, 2006 at 2:17 pm PDT • Views: 220
Unelected European Union bureaucrats are seething and whining over US refusals to reveal national security secrets: EU lawmakers complain US stonewalls on torture.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the European Parliament, in Washington to investigate reports of secret CIA prisons and detainee transfers in Europe, complained on Thursday Bush administration officials stonewalled them.
“There was an exorbitant number of ‘no comments,”’ Claudio Fava, who is charged with writing the delegation’s report, said after an hour-long meeting with senior State Department officials.He likened the U.S. approach to a soccer player who starts a match with a violent foul, saying the Americans set a tone of noncooperation by stating from the outset the visitors had no jurisdiction over the U.S. government. [The nerve of those uncultured barbarian cowboys! —ed.]
Fava said that, while the delegation got no information about specific cases, it was important to put the United States on the spot.
“I take satisfaction from their embarrassment, satisfaction from the difficulty they have in giving a concrete answer to a concrete question,” the leftist Italian told reporters, adding a “no comment” suggested there was something to hide.
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