This news shouldn't really come as a surprise, but the Bush Administration puts financial interests before national security. While the Bush/Rove team talk a good game on national security and keeping Americans safe, they don't do either all that well. Security isn't on the top of their policy agenda, just their political agenda. For Bush and company, even in the post-9/11 world they're always talking about, money rules:
The Bush administration decided last month that a deal to hand over operations at major American ports to a government-owned company in Dubai did not involve national security and so did not require a more lengthy review, administration officials said Wednesday.That pesky national security issue just gets in the way. Team Bush cuts deals to make money. Our security doesn't factor in to their decision making process:
In September, the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the Treasury Department, as head of the interagency committee that reviews such deals, had used an overly narrow definition of national security threats because it wanted to encourage foreign investment.Imagine what will be found when the money trail for the UAE port security deal becomes known.
