I think the article is total bullshit! These globalist creeps want consolidation!
Paving the excuses for the next "terror" attack, are they?
"European security treaty raises worry; Might affect US interests, analysts say" by Charlie Savage/Boston Globe November 26, 2007
WASHINGTON - European nations are poised to ratify a treaty that would give the European Union sweeping power over the continent's security policies, raising concerns among homeland security specialists here that keeping track of suspected terrorists across the Atlantic may become more difficult for the United States.
Although the EU Reform Treaty has received scant attention in the United States, analysts say it could profoundly affect American interests. Until now, the US government has worked nation-to-nation with Europeans on homeland security matters from issuing visas to sharing intelligence.
But the treaty, which will be signed next month and subject to ratification by member countries next year, would increasingly centralize authority over security in the EU, which has been less willing to cooperate with the United States than the governments of some European countries.
The Bush administration has been largely satisfied with the level of cooperation it has received from European countries on counterterrorism. But some US security analysts worry that if the Reform Treaty is ratified, the larger EU government would be more likely to cite privacy concerns to shield data or to allow political differences with the United States to interfere with cooperation.
Earlier this year, several said, the EU Parliament condemned European nations that had quietly cooperated with the CIA on its "extraordinary rendition" program to seize, transfer, and interrogate terrorism suspects without legal rights. The Parliament also has been reluctant to share data about European airline passengers flying into the United States, citing EU privacy laws.
Sally McNamara, a European specialist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the EU has often been "anti-American" in recent years, more quick than many of its members to take exception to US government policies on a range of matters. She warned that a stronger EU might punish the United States in future disputes by restricting cooperation in counterterrorism efforts.
The reform treaty would give the EU greater authority over a range of security issues including immigration, asylum, freezing the assets of suspected terrorists, criminal defendant rights, defining terrorism-related offenses, and making rules for the "collection, storage, processing, analysis, and exchange of relevant information" for law-enforcement purposes.
Ah, the POLICE WORLD EXPANDS!!!!!
As an example of how involvement by the EU can complicate negotiations over security policies, analysts point to a dispute over data about airline passenger name records. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States wanted to set up a system to check names and addresses of people flying in from Europe against watch lists of suspected terrorists.
The root of all evil, right there!
Under existing law, the EU controlled air travel regulations. The Bush administration struck a deal with the European Commission - the EU's executive branch - to get the records in 2004. But the European Parliament voted against the deal, and an EU court struck it down, saying the deal violated EU privacy laws. The EU and United States finally struck a replacement deal in July.
All this hug-a-muga much adieu about nothing, 'eh?
McNamara: "The European Parliament is out, basically, to frustrate the American-led war on terrorism. They are the bastion of human rights and think that the war on terrorism is an evil thing. That's why we [at the think-tank] believe that further European integration in these areas is a bad idea."
She's from Heritage, huh? Man is she out there!
European governments are not against the war on "terror," nor is the EU!
Just because they don't accede to every order we give them, McNamara thinks they are an ENEMY!
May God Save Us from the Neo-Con Nut Cases!!!!!
As for the fraudulent war on "terror," yeah, it is evil because 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!!!!!!!!
The Reform Treaty might also affect US homeland security by complicating the sharing of sensitive classified intelligence. For now, even if the Reform Treaty is ratified, the United States and individual European nations would still be able to share high-level intelligence - without including the EU - when investigating specific terrorists plots.
Then this is a nothing story!
And yet such concern from the author about this potential "problem" tracking "terrorists!"
How 'bout going down to Langley and asking "Al-CIA-Duh" all about it, Chuck?
