Posted on 07/20/2007 7:19:48 PM PDT by plain talk
Former Inside the Ring co-author Rowan Scarborough has written a new book revealing a key reason the Bush administration pressed hard for the 2006 deal for the United Arab Emirates-based Dubai Ports World to take over management of several U.S. ports. According to Mr. Scarborough, the administration wanted the deal to go through because the UAE government had agreed to let the United States post agents inside its global port network who could report on world shipping.
Dubai Ports currently runs port facilities at key U.S. intelligence targets, including Venezuela, China, Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia. "Dubai Ports, in essence, was going to become an agent of CIA," Mr. Scarborough said in an interview. "The arrangement is helping us detect whether any kind of terror contraband was being moved around." The management deal to run ports at New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans and Miami was initially approved by the Treasury Department-run Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, but was eventually scuttled in 2006 after pressure from Congress. Both Republicans and Democrats raised concerns that the deal would affect U.S. port security since al Qaeda had used UAE as a major financial base for its terrorist network.
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And let's not forget, uber hero to some on FR, michael savage(weiner) was also giving monicas to chuckie schumer during the brouhaha.
I can’t believe Savage is an uber hero to any sane individual.
SAvage? Now there’s a guy who needs fitting for a straight-jacket. No doubt about it.
Depends on how bad the libs infest the Agency. The remedy could be anything from firing a few more scumbags or sacking wholesale and starting over (with a new agency even).
These scumbags bring shame to every single star on that wall. What they are doing is nothing less than treason and I sincerely hope that each and everyone of them get their comeuppance.
Conservatives, especially the more strident ones. I was hoping we’d be immune to some of the maladies that affect liberals. Apparently not. Sometimes we truly are our own worse enemies.
That would be the shouted down part. Even most of FR was in hysteria ande debating things that were never suggested. It came out early that we were offered special access to DPWs facilities, including permanent monitoring facilities in every DPW facility world-wide, which would have given us the ability to monitor something near 2/3rd of all of the worlds shipping. You may not have heard it over the din...but I did. The statements and interviews were posted right here on FR.
I think you can find reactionary types on both sides. I think a lot of it has to do with maturity, too. I was much more inclined to get hyped up when I was in my twenties. What concerns me is that we often don’t see in ourselves what we easily identify in others. How often do we point at groups like Moveon.org and laugh at the democrats for being beholden to them? Yet what must it look like to democrats when they see conservative talk radio forcing Bush to capitulate at every turn? I think there are certainly times when this kind of activism is important. For example, I generally sympathize with those who opposed the latest immigration bill. But when you pile that on top of what I think were irrational objections to Dubai ports and Harriet Miers, we basically project a weakened president and there unintended consequences. A month or so ago, the lefties were in hysterics because the democrats had caved on the war spending bill. Fast forward to now, and the democrats are emboldened by Bush’s immigration defeat and they’re starting up with their Iraq surrender stuff again.
As I recall, he was one who went berzerk right off, and then found out what the issues at hand actually were, and dropped it, saying that he only wanted a 45-day review (despite an original 90-some day "30-day review")
Correct on every point. Which just menas that our good President will smack the treason party down unceremoniously again.
The idiots keep misunderestimating him.
Well, at least he changed his tune. Which is much more than many are willing to do.
I agree, articles like this make me furious! For God's sake, these people are freaking clueless.
What is worse with Hannity is he is adding Katrina with his disagreements. He has switched his defense forsome reason.
Do you think we don’t have agents inside watching traffic without their approval?
Miers was going to spy on Ginsburg and all the illegals would spy on powerful people getting their lawns cut.
The same CIA that has spent the last 7 years undermining the WOT? Yeah, I trust them.
Exactly. But, after the Bush bots have taken it on the chin for a few years, they see this as a rare win. Let 'em gloat for a while, this is the best they have.
Oh I heard about how we would have access to all the ports but I heard absolutely zero about the CIA being involved. If that was all over this website it shouldn’t be too difficult to refer me to such a post.
I do like cherry cool-aid but it’s not spiked. I only drink Makers and coke. Maybe you’re saying Bush doesn’t love his country. I would counter that just being a hated Republican you have to at least like it. Otherwise, you’re just useless.
It was a comment on your logic. You started with the premise that he is a great president, and then you try to fit the facts to that premise. Logical people look at the facts, and try to deduce what they say.
The facts show that it is not the case that he is doing everything he can to protect the country.
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