In other news, Europe’s top human rights watchdog urged member states Wednesday to better monitor the CIA’s practice of transferring detainees on European soil. The Council of Europe’s secretary-general Terry Davis said Europe has become “a happy hunting ground” for foreign intelligence activities. Davis said: “Very few countries seem to have adopted an adequate and effective way to monitor who and what is transiting through their airports and airspace… [What] has allegedly happened is illegal under the internal law of all our member states.”