Lawmakers Decry Ports Takeover, Chertoff Defends the Deal

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Lawmakers Decry Ports Takeover, Chertoff Defends the Deal
February 19th, 2006 @ 11:11 pm

Head of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has about as much credibility at this point as a gnat. Needless to say when he “defended the security review of Dubai Ports World” today, it’s a difficult stretch of the mind to trust a word he has to say on this. His record on Katrina speaks for itself.

Chertoff said the government typically builds in “certain conditions or requirements that the company has to agree to make sure we address the national security concerns.” But Chertoff declined to discuss specifics saying that information is classified.

“We make sure there are assurances in place, in general, sufficient to satisfy us that the deal is appropriate from a national security standpoint,” Chertoff said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle (as noted here previously) are questioning the sale to DP World as a possible risk to national security. And then there is also the possible Bush cronyism connection.

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