Stephen Canner, former CIFIUS Chair on Washington Journal now.

[Skidmore]

SHould be interesting. Lots of BS on this ports deal this weekend.

[rodeodance]

1. umm.. host saying the Treasury Sec. found out by reading the papers.

[rodeodance]

2. Canner saying it is duty of staff to let Secretaries know of this deal.

[rodeodance]

3. so, Snow, Rumsfield and WH did not know--it was a low level decision.

[jimshoes]

7. Maybe they can find

a couple of Army privates to blame it on. Couple of bad apples.

[rodeodance]

4. caller in saying Sec (Snow)-has ties to UAE company.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Yeah, Snow Didn't Know...BULLSHIT OVERLOAD

When they sacked Paul O'Neill for being honest, I figured the next guy who writes the checks for this regime would be a major enable and we haven't been let down.

Snow ran CSX...knew all the Dubai Ports people through variosu contacts and the initial reports were that most of the work done on this deal originated in and passed through his office. Hopefully someone will get the goods on this lying bastard and really show the slimy connections of all these characters.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Lots Of Astroturfing Going On

A bunch of calls claiming that the "American people just don't understand" the nuances of international trade, blah blah. What kind of a message we send to the world if we back down on this deal...blah blah.

This isn't outsourcing a factory or trying to break into a foreign market...this is controlling access and operating the billions in trade dollars that pop through those ports...going right from the consumer's pocket into the Carlisle group. The massive push by this regime to try to put so much lipstick on this pig just keeps sending up red flags.