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Outsourcing which could jeopardize national security is about to be implemented.
From The Center for Security Policy, February 14, 2006:
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[Hat tip: Sixth Column]
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Green Energy
Who's Minding Our Ports?
Outsourcing which could jeopardize national security is about to be implemented.
From The Center for Security Policy, February 14, 2006:
"...[A] secretive government committee has decided to turn over the management of six of the Nation's most important ports - in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Miami, Baltimore and New Orleans - to Dubai Ports World following the UAE [United Arab Emirates] company's purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which previously had the contract....
"America's seaports have long been recognized by homeland security experts as among our most vulnerable targets....
"Entrusting information about key U.S. ports - including, presumably, government-approved plans for securing them, to say nothing of the responsibility for controlling physical access to these facilities - to a country known to have been penetrated by terrorists is not just irresponsible. It is recklessly so...."
Read the whole thing here.
To object to the above proposal, contact your elected representatives here and here. Do it now!
[Hat tip: Sixth Column]
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