(Fly) Anywhere But Here: Approaching EU-US Dialogue Concerning PNR in the Era of Lisbon

On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists boarded four planes in Newark, Boston, and Washington D.C. all headed to the west coast of the United States Shortly after takeoff, the terrorists onboard the planes subdued, by use of force, the flight attendants and pilots, thereby commandeering control of the aircraft.2 On each plane was one terrorist trained to fly commercial aircraft. Once in control, these terrorist-pilots took their aim for an attack at the heart of the American financial, government, and defense centers. Three of the aircraft hit their marks, successfully crashing, full of fuel, into World Trade Center 1 and 2 (The Twin Towers) in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. while the fourth, presumably aimed at the Capitol Building or the White House in Washington D.C., crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. This single, intricate, and irreprehensible plan of terror carried out by Al Qaeda minions forever changed the landscape of our nation and the world. Specifically, the interplay between the right to privacy and national security, including the War on Terror, came into the crosshairs of the American government which took action thereby foisting US ideas of security upon those with whom it interacted.