I cannot be as optimistic as you. Just four data:

1º) Accordingly with EL Pais, John Bellinger, Condoleezza Rice’ legal adviser has said that CIA has not made any detention in Europe without Governments’ authorisation. He also has admitted that there has been secret CIA flights from 2001 stopping in Europe and that there has been also detentions. So it seems that all European governments (both, those that now condemn those flights and those that justify them) did know about these flights.

2º) The only person that, up to now, has resigned from his post due to this human right’s scandal has been (even if “officially” he has left for “personal reasons”), as far as I know, is Gijs de Vries when, in my opinion, he did not have the powers to do anything about it, not even to oblige Member States to inform him. So not only the European Goverments are not cooperating in this area -not even saying the truth- but they have “sacrified” the only “innocent” person -lacking of any power to solve the situation- is this unacceptable scandal.

3º) We must welcomed that Fava report was adopted last Wednesday by European Parliament (382 votes) but we should not forget that 256 MP’s voted against and 74 abstentions. 330 MP’s looking the other way is, on my opinion, too many people.

4º) the “unofficial” visits of Spanish police to Guantanamo (as the ones of the French, German police…), without any judicial order, -where, in our case, it seems that they did not even interrogated Spanish citizens but Moroccan ones- sounds me as a “horrible joke” taking into account that European Union has been, meanwhile, reporting, as regards Guantanamo’s prisioners, the USA’s infringments with international humanitarian law and with full compliance with international human rights instruments.

Best regards,
María