Exactly. Except, I will bet you that once this particular issue is resolved, the process issues will sort of die away. Normally, you don't WANT the President OR the Congress involved in approving every business transaction which occurs in the normal course of capitalism. You do want a mechanism to get it to the President if there's a national security problem. The issue is that someone at the sub-Cabinet should have alerted their boss that something hot was afoot so the appropriate Press and Public education could have been done.
"The issue is that someone at the sub-Cabinet should have alerted their boss that something hot was afoot so the appropriate Press and Public education could have been done."
Bingo! I think you've just hit on the problem the administration has on this, and other, problems they've faced!!