The arrest this week of Italian intelligence operative Marco Mancini for allegedly aiding CIA renditions could signal a tectonic shift in European attitudes toward their intelligence services and a rollback of cooperation with the United States. Until now, despite the often fractious public political disputes between the United States and European governments, European intelligence has quietly but effectively aided the war on terrorism in significant ways.

Today I am still grateful to the United States for the high price in lives you continue to pay in the fight against terrorism to assure our common security and defend human rights around the world.