LOL on Wash Journal: Repug mentions "secret agreement"!

[slor]

for the UAE purchase, with the WH. It is over, BABY!!!

[rodeodance]

1. not really, Scott M. mentioned some the secret provisions that UAE

was asked to insert--yesterday. There was also an article posted on DU last evening. They do not amount to much- infact, the article said these provisions were inserted in all foreign deals.

[Skidmore]

2. That they shouldn't be routinely inserted into all foreign deals

is perhaps the point to be made.

[magellan]

3. Not according to the AP article

"Outside legal experts said such obligations are routinely attached to U.S. approvals of foreign sales in other industries." (emphasis mine)

[Lindsay]

4. As I recall, there were differences with the usual

foreign deal - papers do not have to be kept on US soil, which means they are inaccessible to the courts, and while there is usually a US citizen designated to deal with the US government, the DP World deal doesn't specify that, only that they have to designate someone.