February 20, 2006

Chertoff assures: massively unsafe, dangerous Dubai ports deal is safe

Yes, I know it's Reuters, but broken clocks and all they seem to have gotten this right:

The Bush administration has failed to put adequate security conditions on a deal for a state-owned Dubai company to manage major U.S. ports, and it should not go forward pending a full investigation, a key Republican congressman said yesterday.

Lawmakers from both parties joined in criticizing the deal, and one called the administration "tone deaf" for approving it.

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said that before the administration approved the sale of British firm P&O, which manages six U.S. ports, to Dubai Ports World of the United Arab Emirates, it failed to determine whether the company could be trusted...

As you might expect, an administration representative stepped forward to assure the Americans that the deal was A-OK:

"You can be assured that before a deal is approved we put safeguards in place, assurances in place, that make everybody comfortable that we are where we need to be from a national security viewpoint," [Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff] said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Time and time again, the Bush administration has demonstrated that they're completely corrupt, incompetent, untrustworthy, and do not have America's best interests at heart. Hopefully hearings are held and this can be blocked before it becomes yet another legacy of their administration.

Posted to Terrorism at February 20, 2006 07:17 AM

Comments

DHS Secretary Chertoff slipped through. We were caught napping and his appointment (unlike Harriet Meiers) sneaked by us. Had we known (and we should have) that he was a strong open borders/mass amnesty proponent, then perhaps his appointment could have been prevented.

I hate to be pessimistic, but I am coming to believe that it is impossible to influence the Bush Administration on illegal immmigration. We can't give up, we should continue to try. But, I think we should focus our attention on the patriots in Congerss, especially the House. There be the good people.

Posted by: LomaAlta at February 20, 2006 10:53 AM