U.S. Hiring Hong Kong Co. to Scan Nukes

My Way News ^ | Mar 23, 8:32 PM (ET) | TED BRIDIS and JOHN SOLOMON

[AnimalLover]

In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.

The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. represents the first time a foreign company will be involved in running a sophisticated U.S. radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agents present.

Freeport in the Bahamas is 65 miles from the U.S. coast, where cargo would be likely to be inspected again. The contract is currently being finalized.

[AnimalLover]

Does this bring back memories?????

[freepatriot32]

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[ex-Texan]

I heard Coats2Coast live with George Noorey. The show repeats in a few minutes. First guest was Charles R. Smith a conservative expert on China. He is really p@ssed about what is going. (I lived in Long Beach, CA back when China was smuggling illegal arms to Mexico Zapatistas.) Apparently, China just smuugled missle launchers into Los Angeles. Tune in Coast2Coast if you do not believe me. Long shoremen were calling the talk show.

[ncountylee]

Heard a bit earlier. George has delusions of grandeur, was claiming that he broke the ports story but was a couple of days late as usual.

Sure preferred Art.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

WTF???

[ex-Texan]

It was not George Noorey that broke the Dubai ports story. It was Michael Savage. He was burning up talk radio with his rants for a week. Then the story broke. Savage had Chucky Shumer on his show as a guest. Both of them couldn't believe they were talking. If you want to hear some entertaining radio, tune in to Savage tomorrow. He will be over the top and ranting again.

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. has direct connections to the Chinese military (Peoples Liberation Army). GWB better consider cleaning house. China should not be allowed to 'inspect' for nukes on their facilities. Experts controlled by the U.S. ought to be doing this job.

[AlexW]

This is a duplicate thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601915/posts

I posted earlier that Coast to Cost, aka Nuts to Nuts
was going crazy over this.
Loony Noory was jumping out of his pants, claiming this was the biggest story of the century, and it would destroy Bush and lead to his impeachment.

It only got worse when he had this conspiracy freak, Alex Jones (9/11 was an inside job) kook spew his tinfoil.

In the US, I am lucky that this nut show is on in the middle of the night, but here, I have to wake up to it.

Beam me up now.

[beyond the sea]

Li Ka-Shing

.......... is a slimy character............. he started selling plastic flowers and now look.

One more indication of a "one world order" in the cards.

I wonder what will happen to our Constitution, and we thought CFR legislation and the "eminent domain ruling" were bad.

[beyond the sea]

It only got worse when he had this conspiracy freak, Alex Jones (9/11 was an inside job) kook spew his tinfoil.

(jmo) -- Might be better to blow off the name calling ("conspiracy freak", "kook") and address specific claims by Mr. Jones. You sound too much like a liberal with the name calling.

[WhiteGuy]

Does this bring back memories?????


Yes indeed. I guess all those overseas campaign donations (bribes?) have carried over from one administration to the next..........................

[Beckwith]

The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.

This no-bid contract is a "Sole Source" contract. The Sole Source contract is used when there is only a single person or organization who can perform a particular task.

Since "Hutchison operates the sprawling Freeport Container Port on Grand Bahama Island," if you want your goods inspected at "the sprawling Freeport Container Port on Grand Bahama Island," then Hutchinson will manage the task because "Hutchison operates the sprawling Freeport Container Port on Grand Bahama Island."

The Sole Source contract is appropriately used in this case, because Hutchinson is the only game in town.

As far as that sleazeball senator from New York is concerned, he's still beating his "Bush is incompetent" drum, by lying his ass off.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. lied three times in his quoted statement, "Giving a no-bid contract to a foreign company to carry out the most sensitive security screening for radioactive materials at ports abroad raises many questions."

1. The contract wasn't given, it was awarded according to federal regulations.

2. It's not a no-bid contract it's a properly applied sole source contract.

3. Hutchinson won't be doing any screening of containers or cargo.

"Supervised by Bahamian customs officials, Hutchison employees will drive the towering, truck-like radiation scanner that moves slowly over large cargo containers and scans them for radiation that might be emitted by plutonium or a radiological weapon."

"Any positive reading would set off alarms monitored simultaneously by Bahamian customs inspectors at Freeport and by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials working at an anti-terrorism center 800 miles away in northern Virginia. Any alarm would prompt a closer inspection of the cargo, and there are multiple layers of security to prevent tampering, officials said."

[Modok]

Wow, a little Clinton years again. I distinctly remember voting for Bush twice in order to prevent this kind of stuff from happening again.

[chainsaw]

"Any positive reading would set off alarms monitored simultaneously by Bahamian customs inspectors at Freeport and by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials working at an anti-terrorism center 800 miles away in northern Virginia. Any alarm would prompt a closer inspection of the cargo, and there are multiple layers of security to prevent tampering, officials said."

And Hu who is our going to be our next president.

[indubitably]

Thanks for the information. I couldn't sleep, so I slipped on the headphones to catch a repeat of the first hour of coast-to-coast. Sheesh! George Noory is just about screaming for the impeachment of President Bush over this - claiming that the President is no longer running the country and that thugs have taken over. I had to run down here and check FR to find out what was really going

[Right Wing Assault]

Any positive reading would set off alarms monitored simultaneously by Bahamian customs inspectors at Freeport and by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials working at an anti-terrorism center 800 miles away in northern Virginia. Any alarm would prompt a closer inspection of the cargo, and there are multiple layers of security to prevent tampering, officials said.

So all they have to do is make sure a 'certain' container doesn't go through the device. Who's going to know 800 miles away?

[IrishMike]

Let's see how this comes out in the wash.

There was a test of TSA late last week, illegal objects in airline baggage...
Results : TSA 100% failure.

Whomever dose it, it's got to be done right.

[ex-Texan]

What is the guarantee that Beijing would not send covert agents to Hutchison Whampoa's facility for the purpose of determining the weakness of our detection systems?

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. is closely tied to the Chinese military. China just smuggled missile launchers into Los Angeles last month. They smuggled truck loads of AK-47's into Long Beach in 1998. China is using its commercial operations in the U.S. for spying and stealing high tech secrets.

China is not our friend. Russia is not our friend.

[Beckwith]

So all they have to do is make sure a 'certain' container doesn't go through the device.

Who or what is the "they" you write about?

[beyond the sea]

China is not our friend. Russia is not our friend.

Unfortunately, people in government don't believe you.

[DustyMoment]

Apparently, one of two things is going on - either there is something in the air or the water in Wash., DC, or W is becoming a certifiable idot. He didn't get the ports deal and he doesn't get this!

Are there simply no American companies that can provide these services, or is Bush too wrapped around his globalization agenda?