Do you concede that we've had communist and Islamist infiltration of our government and military??
We had these infiltrations (i'm thinking of FBI Hansen) despite the fact that all of our societal cues were saying "Be loyal, be a Boy Scout etc." and our adversaries were unattractive fascists.
In a society like the UAE where all societal cues are saying, "Jewmerica, Infidels, insulters of Islam and the Prophet," it seems to me the normal trajectory is jihad and the oddball is thinking to himself, "America, whiskey, Sexy, no bomb belts."
We've always had traitors, yes.
But I just don't know enough about the key elements of the port deal to have an informed opinion.