Port's A Hoy!

More UAE Port-Gate:
UPI is reporting that the deal is for 21 ports not the reported 6. And the takeover would be friday unless congress intervenes.

Oy Vey and it tells us this:

The Marine Transportation Security Act of 2002 requires vessels and port
facilities to conduct vulnerability assessments and develop security plans
including passenger, vehicle and baggage screening procedures; security patrols;
establishing restricted areas; personnel identification procedures; access
control measures; and/or installation of surveillance equipment.
Under the same law, port facility operators may have access to Coast Guard security incident response plans -- that is, they would know how the Coast Guard plans to
counter and respond to terrorist attacks.

Wow. Just. Wow.

Ap tells us that :

The president's national security adviser said the White
House would keep trying to persuade lawmakers there's more time since the
company offered to delay its takeover but the administration wouldn't reconsider
its approval.

and:

"It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened," Kean said in
a telephone interview with The Associated Press. The quicker the Bush administration can get out of the deal, the better, he said. "There's no question that two of the 9/11 hijackers came from there and money was laundered through there," Kean said.

Kean is the former GOP governer of NJ.