I know the total is really "21", but the initial news which should have set the political bells in the White House ringing, before the secret committee made its approval, was "Arab company to run six major US ports". The number is not as important as is the revelation of the deal to everyone and that the underlings in the Bush team took a "ho hum" attitude and never even tried to tell cabinet officials, much less Bush, that maybe they want to get out ahead of this.
It's also queer that a DPW executive, Dave Sanborn, was appointed to the position of U.S. Maritime Administrator just one month ago, and his position reports directly to a Cabinet member.