Chuckie Schumer and company knew about this deal as did many others months ago and did nothing. They knew this would be the perfect event to make Republicans play right into their hands, which is what they are doing and making the country think that Dems are on top of National security. Schumer could have made noise and lined up his offense to the deal long ago and Singapore would have got the deal but he decided to play this one out and boy are the conservative talking heads making an *ss of themselves now.
I agree. Peter King should have known about it, too, since he heads the House's Homeland Security Committee.
There are two explanations for King's and Schumer's proclaimed surprise at the deal --
King and Schumer are lying that they didn't know the state-run firms PSA (Singapore) and DPW (UAE) were bidding on P&O
King and Schumer don't bother to read the papers to keep up to date on international business events that affect the US.
I'd like to know where they were when Clinton was giving away the "shipping" shop to the folks who gave him illegal campaign contributions, the Red Chinese government.
If Chuckie Schumer knew about this, and waited for the chance to spring, why didn't Bush know, and why did he put his foot in his mouth and say he would veto any attempt to stop something he knew nothing about?