Coast Guard was worried about port security deal

--Matt Davies via Slate.com

Turns out the U.S. Coast Guard was worried about intelligence gaps with the proposed deal to have a company from UAE take over port security. You can find the story here.

The Bush Administration isn't giving any good reasons to trust them on this since every time someone asks an administrative official about the deal, they don't seem to know anything about it. It looks more and more like this deal happened because some of Bush's friends are going to make a lot of money from the deal. That makes this code green for buckets of money on the security meter than rather than the code black for oil I mentioned earlier.

I still think having a company from any country doing our port security is a nightmare waiting to happen. It's not just that the company is from the UAE. I was just as angry to hear they are getting control of it after a British company had it. It's bad for national security and our country's long-term economic security.