I disagree. The facts were carefully investigated from the first by Frank Gaffney, Congressman Peter King (Chmn, Homeland Security Committee), Duncan Hunter (Chmn, House Armed Services Committee) and those who have distinguished themselves in national security journalism such as Kenneth Timmerman.
And the White House didn't help itself by indirectly smearing them...and all concerned Americans... with the broad tar brush. And they also shot themselves in the foot in a number of other ways.
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA, Finance Committee Chmn) had explicitly directed to the members and staff of CFIUS that if another potential security-implicated deal arose after the abortive CNOOC China Oil/UNOCAL takeover bid...that he be notified immediately of the issues and the investigatory status. They said they would do so.
He wasn't. He only learned of it after the issue broke in the news. This is beyond inexcusable. This is political malfeasance par excellance' on the part of the administration. They are turning stalwarts into skeptics instead.
Things need fixing, and it isn't the 'conservatives' at fault here. The administration has to honestly look in the mirror.
You never have trouble if you are prepared for it.
--Theodore Roosevelt
I disagree.
I can give you a long list of names of people who investigated the facts and came to the opposite conclusion of the people in your above mentioned list.
I looked at what both King and Gaffney said, and frankly I can find better, less propaganda filled messages elsewhere.
If the deal had gone through could the state of Dubai have eventually claimed sovereignty at those terminals making them, in effect, part of the UAE? I don't want to take that chance.