DU this staffer on ports sale to UAE company

[Bluesplayer]

Bi-partisan opposition to the proposed sale of British firm P&O, which manages six U.S. ports including New York, to Dubai Ports World, a UAE company, is starting to build up some steam.

This decision is apparently the result of a process that was created by executive order, and managed solely by the executive branch. This link describes the act and lists the executive branch officials who make the decisions: http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/international-affairs/exon-florio/

According to this treasury dept site, [email protected] is the staffer in charge. It seems like it's our responsibility under a representative democracy to let her (as well as our actual elected officials) know how we feel about giving control of a major part of our infrastructure to a middle east country that "some in Congress have expressed fears that the UAE was used as a conduit for parts used for nuclear proliferation and that the local banking system had been abused by financiers with possible links to terrorist organizations." http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-02-19T163257Z_01_N19219437_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-PORTS.XML

And in other news, the sale of the management of the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA to the Chinese Department of Flying Nuclear Weapons is said to be stalled over something to do with "the football."

[NVMojo]

1. thanks for all the info! This is such an outrage. Here's my email.

To hand over security of our ports to a group that helped finance the 9/11 terrorist attacks by penetrating our air space is nothing less then an outrage. I am embarassed to be in a country that lacks shame. This administration has found ways to penetrate every one of our personal cracks and spaces in this country. And now this? When does this insanity stop?

In honor of the 9/11 victims:

NVMojo
Elko, NV

(let me know if you want my phone number so Bush and his thugs can spy on me.)

"I'm just a human being trying to make it
in a world that is very rapidly losing its
understanding of being human."
---John Trudell

[MercutioATC]

2. I'm pretty sure you can't say "penetrate every one of our personal cracks"

;)