[vernvet]

They will have a office at the port. That office will have computers. Those computers can e-maill photo's of the ports day to day operations.

It seems that many of the same people that were concerned when Presidents Carter and Clinton allowed this to happen thinks it is just fine for President Bush to allow it to happen.

Remember what the Japanese were doing prior to WWII. They were traveling our roads and picking up scrap metal and sending it back to Japan. They gave it back to us at Pearl Harbor.

This is treason.

[Echo Talon]

ok, they send day to day operations of their ports. Is it worth losing them as an ally? I think thats what people are forgetting, this country allows us to have AIR Bases on their soil. They also share intel with us.

[expat_panama]

They will have a office at the port. That office will have computers. Those computers can e-maill photo's of the ports day to day operations.

Wait a second-- are you saying that if we have crazy Hilary write a bunch of goofy laws screwing up DPW's buying out P&O, then some how terrorists will not be able to own computers and have offices overlooking ports?

[Alberta's Child]

Here's a message I posted on this subject yesterday . . .

I'm guessing a lot of people here on FR aren't aware of this, but container ports are open-air facilities where all cargo activity -- both on the ship and on the pier -- takes place outside. With a group of three or four people I could do the following (starting this afternoon):

1. Identify a container ship entering the Port of New York and New Jersey.

2. Identify the exact time of berthing at one of the seven terminals in the port.

3. Visually select a few random containers on the vessel. Identify the exact time when each of these containers was unloaded from the ship.

4. Identify the exact location on the pier where each container was placed.

5. Identify the date and exact time when each of these containers is picked up by the consignee.

6. Identify the warehouse or distribution center where each container is taken, the routes taken to get them there, and the exact time they arrived at each location.

Now I wish someone would please tell me this . . . from a national security standpoint, what kind of information could someone possibly want that is worth paying $6.8 billion to acquire?