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To: LindyBill who wrote (158695)	2/22/2006 8:07:11 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793542

any port operator is not responsible for inspecting the cargo. That's up to homeland security

To: LindyBill who wrote (158695)	2/22/2006 8:07:39 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793542

Clinton sold the UAE 30 F-16s

To: LindyBill who wrote (158695)	2/22/2006 8:08:48 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793542

Savage has been beating this for three weeks. President Bush heard about the controversial $6.8 billion sale of six American port operations to a company based in Dubai only a few days ago I don't know if he just has a good ear for an issue or if he has more influence than people think.

To: LindyBill who wrote (158695)	2/22/2006 10:40:13 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793542

We need more information here on the ports. Maybe needing the information is what this is all about. None of us raised a fuss when the UK company had the contract....and did they screen all their employees? So is this fuss just because we all have so little control about things that affect us? Or are we really more racist than we know? Or what? A couple of things bothered me from the article...and I'm sure there are more. For example: >>>>> A port operator also provides other services to the shipping industry: It does the paperwork to get incoming shipments through customs and uses its computer system to help connect the goods with potential recipients. <<<<< Does the Coast Guard over check these shipments and paperwork? And the computer system is only as good as the people who input data. Who is checking at the loading end, before the shipments come to the US? and then, there is this: >>>>> The port operator also handles personnel issues. Yes. And who does the hiring? Are ID documents in place, and the 'right to work in the US' documents in place, along with the I-9...? Where are the sources for the people to be hired? Do the unions do the hiring and therefore have the documentation, or does the port operator? We need to have Senators and House members actually do the investigative work, ask the questions, and get the documentation, and stop grandstanding. Does anyone know where this decision actually came from? If Bush or Rumsfeld didn't see the finished product until a few days ago, who originated the document? Is this the way things like this are "done"???