(AP/Miami Herald) Aoife White - The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers - a vote the U.S. said disrupted an important source of information for anti-terror investigators. EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, voted 378-196 against the deal. The parliament's president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly wants more safeguards for civil liberties and believes human rights has been compromised in the name of security. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said, "We are disappointed by the result of the vote....We think this decision disrupts an important counterterrorism program."
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