For more than a decade, European states have pointed fingers at America for sacrificing its freedoms in the fight against terror: the Patriot Act, waterboarding and Guantanamo cited as prime examples of measures incompatible with Europe’s self-understanding. But since the November Paris attacks the gloves have come off, and Europeans are scrambling down from the moral high ground from which they previously judged American counter-terrorism measures.
Read the entire piece of director Jacob Mchangama at Politico.eu
