Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was not aware a Dubai-owned
company was seeking to operate terminals in six U.S. ports and that his
agency was leading the review until after the deal’s approval, an
administration official said yesterday.

 Mr. Chertoff’s spokesman, Russ Knocke, told The Washington Times
the issue rose no higher than the department’s assistant secretary for
policy, Stewart Baker.

“[Chertoff] was not briefed up to this until after this story started
appearing in the newspapers,” Mr. Knocke said.

Mr. Chertoff is the third Cabinet official to acknowledge he did not know
his agency had signed off on the plan as a member of the interagency

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Now lets get this all straight. In a post 9-11 America where we have to worry
about terrorists trying to come in our borders and cause their destruction there
is a deal that has given control of 6 major ports to the Dubai, a country known
to harbor terrorists and had connections with those who attacked us on 9/11.
This deal was not known about by our secretary of defense, the joint chiefs of
staff, our President and the head of our homeland security. I am not a
conspiracy theory nut but I can see how this would make those “9/11 was an
inside job” people go crazy. This is just proving their point even more. Our
administration is out of touch with what is happening to our security and they
don’t even take it seriously.

With issues like this it is a gift to the Democrats that Bush wants to make
terrorism the number one issue this election.