1 [Editor’s Note: See section below: EU and United States Conclude Temporary Agreement to Share Passenger Data. ]

2 Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Remarks to Federalist Society's Annual Lawyers Convention (Nov. 17, 2006), at <http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/speeches/sp_1163798467437.shtm.>

3 [Editor’s Note: See John R., Crook, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 100 AJIL 723 (2006)Google Scholar. Similar remarks by Bellinger about possible measures to supplement the Geneva Conventions in a September interview were summarily dismissed by a senior European counterterrorism official: “The opinion of Europe’s ministers is that respecting the rules, not bending them, is essential to our credibility . . . .” Ariane, Bernard, European Faults U.S. Officials for Remarks on Geneva Rules, N.Y. Times, Sept. 23, 2006, at A4 Google Scholar.]

4 Department of State Legal Adviser John B., Bellinger III, Fifth Anniversary of September 11 th Attacks, Rome, Italy (Sept. 11, 2006), at <http://www.state.gov/s/l/rls/73082.htm>Google Scholar. In a September interview, Bellinger again called for greater engagement between the United States and European countries. Michael, Peel & Guy, Dinmore, US Needs ‘Advice Not Criticism’ on Terror Suspects, Financial Times, Sept. 21, 2006, at <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/be41c318–490d–11db–a996–0000779e2340.html>Google Scholar.