{"id":314151,"date":"2010-02-12T22:43:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/lisbon-treaty-already-undermining-u-s-national-security-39410\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T22:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:43:13","slug":"lisbon-treaty-already-undermining-u-s-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/314151","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon Treaty Already Undermining U.S. National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.12.10 03:00 PM posted by Sally McNamara<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/europeanparliament.jpg&quot;&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/europeanparliament.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;Following the introduction of  the EU\u0092s Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament has claimed its first scalp  thanks to the increased powers bestowed upon it by the Treaty; and it has a  distinctly anti-American flavor. Voting in Strasbourg, &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/11\/AR2010021102139.html&quot;&gt;Parliamentarians voted  down an EU-US agreement on tracking terrorist financing which was agreed in  November 2009, before the passage of the Lisbon Treaty.<\/p>\n<p>Top Administration officials,  including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are reportedly furious. The  Terrorism Finance Tracking Project, introduced after the 9\/11 terrorist attacks,  is now in jeopardy. This comes in the wake of the attempted al-Qaeda terrorist  bombing of flight 253 from Amsterdam-Detroit on Christmas Day. So much for \u0093nous  sommes tous Americains.\u0094&lt;spanid=&quot;more-26446&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament is an  endemically anti-American institution which has relentlessly prosecuted the  American-led war on terrorism. In 2006, it formed a temporary committee to  investigate America\u0092s extraordinary rendition program, with some MEP\u0092s comparing  U.S. detention sites with the Soviet gulags.<\/p>\n<p>There is intense &lt;atitle=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Europe\/wm2474.cfm&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Europe\/wm2474.cfm&quot;&gt;dissatisfaction and  disillusionment among Europeans with the Parliament, resulting in the lowest  turnout for Europe-wide elections last June. That dissatisfaction is clearly  spreading to the U.S. now, despite President Obama\u0092s massive commitment to  improving America\u0092s image in Europe. The Administration should rue the day that  it congratulated the EU on the &lt;atitle=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Europe\/tst12152009a.cfm&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Europe\/tst12152009a.cfm&quot;&gt;passage of the  Lisbon Treaty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/12\/lisbon-treaty-already-undermining-u-s-national-security\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/12\/&#8230;onal-security\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.12.10 03:00 PM posted by Sally McNamara &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/europeanparliament.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;Following the introduction of the EU\u0092s Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament has claimed its first scalp thanks to the increased powers bestowed upon it by the Treaty; and it has a distinctly anti-American flavor. Voting in Strasbourg, &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/11\/AR2010021102139.html&quot;&gt;Parliamentarians voted down an EU-US agreement on tracking terrorist financing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}