DoD is on the committee. Doesn't mean the representative (whomever it may have been) kept Rummy properly informed.
The White House should know that. If, in the midst of a heated issue, the White House states every one of the Cabinet secretaries expressed that they were comfortable with this transaction being approved they should have known that statement was factual. In my view the process was flawed. Perhaps that's a function of legislation formulating the committee which is Congress' domain, perhaps a flaw in it's operation which belongs to the administration. While there may be none, there's clearly the potential for a security risk in this transaction, citizens of the UAE have been active in terror, al Qaida operates there, this should have come to the attention of Defence and the White House. I'll leave the political handling of the issue to speak for itself. At this point GWB should agree to a review and put the issue to bed. To threaten a veto over an issue he admittadly knew little about is ludicrous.