You're right. Bill Bennet is typically so level headed .. I am taken aback by this.
It's one thing to debate the issue - and I admit there are good points to be made on both sides - but it's quite another to misstate the facts. That what those who call this "selling the ports" or "control of the ports" are doing, just like those who call the intelligence-gathering of foreign phone calls made by terrorists to U.S. accomplices "domestic spying."