SACOFTOMATOES

SECURITY AT PORTS AT RISK

Its hard for me to believe that the sell of six ports in the United States to United Arab Emirates company didn't get much press time. The Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment reviewed the $6.8 billion deal for security risks and did not object. U.S. Rep Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach took his concerns to the Bush Administration. “Six of our largest commercial ports are being handed over to a country that is seeking to be Iran’s free trade partner and has been linked to the funding and planning of 9/11,” Foley said. “ If our ports are the most vulnerable targets for terrorism and if we are at war, as the President says, we should be overly critical of handing over management of our ports to any foreign countries, post 9/11. Instead, this was done in the dead of night.”
I have to agree with Rep. Foley I don’t see the need to go ahead without a real open investigation. I know we live in a global economy but we also need to realize the threat of global terrorism.

posted by pappy @ 1:17 PM