From the AP
“The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major American ports.”

This is absurd! What will these people (Bushco) not do for money? To give control of some of our major ports to a group that is often openly hostile to America is beyond explanation. I suspect that many of these secretive panel members will eventually land jobs with the UAE in someway or another. Bush's relationship with these people is not in the best interest of America. To paraphrase a line in the movie Syriana.. “ 50 years ago these people were cutting each others heads off in the desert, and in another 50 they will be doing the same thing.”. The only thing these people produce is oil and misery. Let them run their own ports.