VIA the Raw Story:
Homeland Security balked at ports deal
Sunday, February 26, 2006
FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS
The Homeland Security Department objected at first to the takeover of operations at six U.S. ports by a United Arab Emirates company. It was the only protest among members of the secretive government committee that eventually approved the deal without dissent.
The department's early objections were settled later in the government's review of the deal after the company, Dubai Ports World, agreed to a series of security restrictions.
On Saturday, congressional leaders, the company and Bush administration officials appeared to move closer to a compromise intended to derail plans by Republicans and Democrats for legislation this week that would force a new investigation of security issues relating to the deal. Discussions were to continue through the weekend.
Among the proposals being discussed is a new, intensive 45-day review of the deal by the government -- something the White House had refused to consider as recently as Friday.
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