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The US CIA and several high members in the White House have some sort of "contract to kill" agreement with the company that's planning on taking over control of several large US sea ports, the White House does not want this to get out, and will try its best to keep it a secret, even from the Congress and Senate...at least that's what I'm assuming it says.

Brian:

See the text below & the link.....

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20060223/ap_on_go_pr_wh/ports_security_54

Amazing

Neil

Brian

Arab Co., White House Had Secret Agreement

By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 40
minutes ago

The Bush administration secretly required a company in
the United Arab Emirates to cooperate with future U.S.
investigations before approving its takeover of
operations at six American ports, according to
documents obtained by The Associated Press. It chose
not to impose other, routine restrictions.

As part of the $6.8 billion purchase, state-owned
Dubai Ports World agreed to reveal records on demand
about "foreign operational direction" of its business
at U.S. ports, the documents said. Those records
broadly include details about the design, maintenance
or operation of ports and equipment.

The administration did not require Dubai Ports to keep
copies of business records on U.S. soil, where they
would be subject to court orders. It also did not
require the company to designate an American citizen
to accommodate U.S. government requests. Outside legal
experts said such obligations are routinely attached
to U.S. approvals of foreign sales in other
industries.

"They're not lax but they're not draconian," said
James Lewis, a former U.S. official who worked on such
agreements. If officials had predicted the firestorm
of criticism over the deal, Lewis said, "they might
have made them sound harder."

The conditions involving the sale of London-based
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. were
detailed in U.S. documents marked "confidential." Such
records are regularly guarded as trade secrets, and it
is highly unusual for them to be made public.

The concessions — described previously by the Homeland
Security Department as unprecedented among maritime
companies — reflect the close relationship between the
United States and the United Arab Emirates.

The revelations about the negotiated conditions came
as the White House acknowledged President Bush was
unaware of the pending sale until the deal had already
been approved by his administration.

Bush on Tuesday brushed aside objections by leaders in
the Senate and House. He pledged to veto any bill
Congress might approve to block the agreement, but
some lawmakers said they still were determined to
capsize it.

Dubai Port's top American executive, chief operating
officer Edward H. Bilkey, said the company will do
whatever the Bush administration asks to enhance
shipping security and ensure the sale goes through.
Bilkey said Wednesday he will work in Washington to
persuade skeptical lawmakers they should endorse the
deal; Senate oversight hearings already are scheduled.

"We're disappointed," Bilkey told the AP in an
interview. "We're going to do our best to persuade
them that they jumped the gun. The UAE is a very solid
friend, as President Bush has said."

Under the deal, the government asked Dubai Ports to
operate American seaports with existing U.S. managers
"to the extent possible." It promised to take "all
reasonable steps" to assist the Homeland Security
Department, and it pledged to continue participating
in security programs to stop smuggling and detect
illegal shipments of nuclear materials.

The administration required Dubai Ports to designate
an executive to handle requests from the U.S.
government, but it did not specify this person's
citizenship.

It said Dubai Ports must retain paperwork "in the
normal course of business" but did not specify a time
period or require corporate records to be housed in
the United States. Outside experts familiar with such
agreements said such provisions are routine in other
cases.

Bush faces a potential rebellion from leaders of his
own party, as well as a fight from Democrats, over the
sale. It puts Dubai Ports in charge of major terminal
operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New
Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.

Senate and House leaders urged the president to delay
the takeover, which is set to be finalized in early
March. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee
said the deal raised "serious questions regarding the
safety and security of our homeland." House Speaker
Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., asked the president for a
moratorium on the sale until it could be studied
further.

In Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said the agreement was thoroughly vetted. "We have to
maintain a principle that it doesn't matter where in
the world one of these purchases is coming from," Rice
said Wednesday. She described the United Arab Emirates
as "a good partner in the war on terrorism."

Bush personally defended the agreement on Tuesday, but
the White House said he did not know about it until
recently. The AP first reported the U.S. approval of
the sale to Dubai Ports on Feb. 11, and many members
of Congress have said they learned about it from the
AP.

"I think somebody dropped the ball," said Rep. Vito
Fossella (news, bio, voting record), R-N.Y.
"Information should have flowed more freely and more
quickly up into the White House. I think it has been
mishandled in terms of coming forward with adequate
information."

At the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan said
Bush learned about the deal "over the last several
days," as congressional criticism escalated. McClellan
said it did not rise to the presidential level, but
went through a government review and was determined
not to pose a threat.

McClellan said Bush afterward asked the head of every
U.S. department involved in approving the sale whether
there were security concerns. "Each and every one
expressed that they were comfortable with this
transaction going forward," he said.

Commerce Secretary Carlos Guiterrez told the AP the
administration was being thoughtful and deliberate
approving the sale.

"We are not reacting emotionally," Guiterrez said in
an interview Wednesday. "That's what I believe our
partners from around the world would like to see from
us is that we be thoughtful. That we be deliberate.
That we understand issues before we make a decision."

Brian: This came in as BREAKING NEWS earlier in the night.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans in Congress are crafting a solution under which the controversial deal allowing a state-owned Arab company to run some terminals at six U.S. ports could move forward.
The agreement would first have to pass a 45-day investigation focusing on the national security implications of the deal, several sources linked to the talks said.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee is encouraging DP World to ask a government review panel to kick-start the investigations, which is the best way to convince lawmakers the transaction won't jeopardize national security, a Frist aide said.
DP World, a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates, declined to comment Saturday.
P&O, the British company selling its operations at six major U.S. ports to DB World, has operations in 23 U.S. port cities. But it does not a have a monopoly at any of the ports to be sold, according to the company's Web site.
The Department of Homeland Security has released a document stating that DP World, which plans to take over some operations from British-based P&O in a deal worth $6.8 billion, will not "operate or manage any U.S. port."
The deal has been stalled amid bipartisan concerns over security. But if it goes through, DP World will operate 11 of the 43 terminals in the six ports: two of 14 in Baltimore, Maryland; one of five in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; one of three in Miami, Florida; two of five in New Orleans, Louisiana; four of 12 in Houston, Texas; and one of four in Newark, New Jersey, according to the Department of Homeland Security news release.
P&O also has service operations in 17 other cities, including New York, according to its Web site, which refers to the company as "the largest independent stevedore and terminal operator on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts with operations in most ports from Maine to Texas."
According to a dispatcher at the Dix-Fairway terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas -- one of the cities where P&O operates -- such services include container repair, cargo storage and stevedoring, which is the loading and unloading of cargo.
DP World's plans to buy P&O's operations has caused a bipartisan uproar in the United States, where politicians have opposed the deal because the company is owned by the United Arab Emirates. (Watch how security concerns forced DP World to postpone the takeover -- 2:09)
Allaying security concerns
Under the proposed compromise aimed at simmering congressional concerns, DP World would have to request the special investigation, and it is not clear whether the company would.
GOP sources, however, say that lobbyists are encouraging DP World to embrace the proposal.
The White House has resisted calls to subject the deal to that level of scrutiny, saying the earlier review was thorough and addressed national security questions.
Though the White House says this level of review is unnecessary, it could prove to be a handy exit strategy to end a dramatic face-off with the GOP leadership and ultimately allow the deal to go through.
The deal underwent a 30-day review before it was initially approved, but the 45-day review will focus almost exclusively on national security and it would involve more senior administration officials.
UAE history
Critics say the UAE has had questionable ties to terrorists in the past and that its banking hub in Dubai was used to funnel money linked to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.
There is concern among some that allowing the company to operate some terminals in U.S. ports will compromise national security, but the White House and DHS have vehemently defended the transaction.
In its news release, the DHS states that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard, often with the help of local port authorities, provide security and screen cargo as it arrives in a port.
"DP World will not, nor will any other terminal operator, control, operate or manage any United States port," the news release states. "DP World will only operate and manage specific, individual terminals located within six ports."
On Saturday, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, criticized the deal, detailing the "many reasons why this transaction fails the basic test of common sense with regard to our nation's homeland security."
He said that 11 of the 9/11 hijackers traveled to the United States through Dubai's airport. Two of the suicide attackers were from the UAE.
In addition, Corzine said, "about half of the money used to finance" those attacks was wired to terrorists from Dubai banks. He added that Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan has acknowledged working with a Dubai firm "to supply nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea."
"Dangerous men, tainted blood money and nuclear technology have moved across UAE borders," Corzine said.
He said that to protect the Port of Newark, considered by the FBI "the most vulnerable two miles in America," he directed New Jersey's attorney general and the regional port authority to file lawsuits to stop the deal. (More on lawsuits)
Corzine also said there was a difference between a foreign-owned company like P&O and one owned by a foreign government like DP World.
"Dubai is not Britain," he said, adding that "port security does not begin and end at the pier in Newark." (More on what he said)
President Bush has told reporters that the merger poses no security risk, and he has threatened to veto any legislation that seeks to block the transaction. It would be Bush's first use of the veto power.
The UAE has been a key U.S. ally in the region, a frequent stop for U.S. warships and aircraft and a supply depot for American troops in Iraq, he said. The nation also donated $100 million to Hurricane Katrina victims the week after the storm ravaged the Gulf Coast.

Faced with a firestorm on Capitol Hill, DP World agreed Thursday to delay the management takeover of the operations in the six U.S. ports, scheduled to commence March 2. (Full story)

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Brian

Faced with a firestorm on Capitol Hill, DP World agreed Thursday to delay the management takeover of the operations in the six U.S. ports, scheduled to commence March 2. (Full story)

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