More follow-up, from today's Post.

The Post, BTW, is a very conservative newspaper which almost always supports the Bush administration.

I give them a lot of credit for the editorial they ran and their coverage of this story.

February 17, 2006 -
WASHINGTON —

Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Vito Fossella led lawmakers yesterday in calling on the White House to scuttle the sale of New York's port operations — and five other major harbors — to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates.

Lawmakers threatened to hold congressional hearings and craft legislation to block the contract if President Bush doesn't stop the sale.

"Imagine if today there was an official announcement that [UAE] was to take over security at our airports. Would not the American people question why and be somewhat outraged that we would delegate authority of our airports to a foreign nation?" Fossella (R-S.I.) quipped.

The $6.8 billion bid by government-owned Dubai Ports World to run shipping operations at six ports in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami and New Orleans recently won approval from a secretive U.S. panel that evaluates the security risks of foreign companies buying U.S. industry.

"Outsourcing the operations . . . to a country with a dubious record on terrorism is a homeland-security and commerce accident waiting to happen," Schumer said.
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Neal liked this part:

"Imagine if today there was an official announcement that [UAE] was to take over security at our airports. Would not the American people question why and be somewhat outraged that we would delegate authority of our airports to a foreign nation?" Fossella (R-S.I.) quipped.