The United States and its European allies are engaged in a global struggle against terror. While worldwide criticism of America's leadership of the-war on terror‖ has focused attention on America's human rights transgressions, the United States is not the only democratic state that, at times, has privileged national security over civil liberties. Just as images of the burning World Trade Center towers transformed America's domestic political dynamic and propelled then-President Bush to declare a war on terror, subsequent terrorist attacks in London 2 and Madrid 3 have raised the stakes, as well