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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-02-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Transportation and illegal detention of prisoners (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070214.2.3-060"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-02-14-Speech-3-0612
lpv:speaker	lp:Hubert Pirker2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (2006-02-01--2009-07-13)3,3 chair; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2006-03-21--2007-03-13)3,3 member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Österreichische Volkspartei - Liste Ursula Stenzel (2006-02-01--2009-07-13)3,3 member; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2006-03-21--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President of the Commission, when we set up the committee of inquiry, we did so on the understanding that we wanted to seek new knowledge, that we wanted to get at the facts, and that it would be necessary to take appropriate action if it turned out that human rights had been violated. This report, though, with its 270 amendments, now contains facts and new information only in part, but, on the other hand, numerous suppositions, assertions and – as it did before – insinuations. I am sure that the rapporteur, Mr Fava, does not want that any more than anyone else does. The principal impression given is that the USA is in the dock, and so, if it is, the terrorists who really should be in the dock are no longer the principal subject for consideration in the report. If that is the case, then that is a political error all round. The report also, however, contains errors of fact concerning Europol, for example, which is alleged to have cooperated with the American secret services; the claim is also made that American secret service agents had worked at Europol as liaison officers. Even though Europol’s director, Mr Ratzel, wrote a letter to make the facts plain – namely that Europol is of course not a secret service and cannot exercise a coordinating role over the services in Europe, and that, of course, no liaison officer from an American secret service department has ever worked there – the factually incorrect account remains in the report. This does damage to this House’s credibility, and we must firmly repudiate it. If various items founded solely on assertions and insinuations are dressed up as facts and then not voted out of the report, or if false accounts of events are left to stand, then the report is not doing what it was supposed to do, and then we have to ask ourselves whether the EUR 2 million that were needed for the committee of inquiry can be regarded as a justifiable expenditure."@en1

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