The Committee on Foreign Investments has nine members, including the secretaries of the treasury, state, defense, homeland security, commerce and energy; the attorney general; and representatives from two White House offices (the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy).
This group approved. Obama could have stopped it even with their approval.
This is one seriously tangled web.
So many people, so many crimes... oh to have a gig at as a logistics coordinator in DC right now. That job would pay big bucks!