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:"The European Unions’s policy of easily attainable [[political asylum]] and its prohibition against deporting wanted or convicted [[terrorist]]s to countries with the [[death penalty]] have made Europe a major, consistent, and invulnerable source of terrorist threat to the United States”.  
 
:"The European Unions’s policy of easily attainable [[political asylum]] and its prohibition against deporting wanted or convicted [[terrorist]]s to countries with the [[death penalty]] have made Europe a major, consistent, and invulnerable source of terrorist threat to the United States”.  
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Scheuer has criticiced ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter Dana Priest for revealing declassified ”information that damaged U.S. national security and, as result, won a journalism prize for abetting America’s enemies.” <ref>Accuracy in Media Special report, [http://www.aim.org/special_report/4557_0_8_0_C/ Post Reporter Dana Priest's Troubling Connections], Jennifer Verner, May 9, 2006. </ref>  
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Scheuer has criticized ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter Dana Priest for revealing declassified ”information that damaged U.S. national security and, as result, won a journalism prize for abetting America’s enemies.” <ref>Accuracy in Media Special report, [http://www.aim.org/special_report/4557_0_8_0_C/ Post Reporter Dana Priest's Troubling Connections], Jennifer Verner, May 9, 2006. </ref>  
    
The evidence suggests this is intended as a form of 'torture export'; while carrying out torture against terrorists would be dangerous on American soil (as it would make the US government directly responsible), if it takes place in another country, which has less image to lose on the subject of human rights, it may not violate US law. <ref>[http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-yemencase1-eng Amnesty International Yemen Case 1], August 2005. </ref>
 
The evidence suggests this is intended as a form of 'torture export'; while carrying out torture against terrorists would be dangerous on American soil (as it would make the US government directly responsible), if it takes place in another country, which has less image to lose on the subject of human rights, it may not violate US law. <ref>[http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-yemencase1-eng Amnesty International Yemen Case 1], August 2005. </ref>
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