[inquest]

I hope the new terminal operators will be required to take the same security precautions that DPW was willing to take.

Whatever might you be referring to? According to WhiteHouse.gov (2nd link down posted at #54):

MYTH: The Bush Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company owned by the Government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

FACT: The United States government is in charge of U.S. port security. We will never outsource the security of our ports. The U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection are in charge of security of our ports.

I hope you're not suggesting that the administration is giving us false or misleading information here.

[clawrence3]

Did you read my post above about $100 million in promised radiation detectors?!

[Mike Darancette]

Whatever might you be referring to?

From the WSJ:

The four-page offer, titled "Proposed Solution to the DP World Issue," promised to give the Department of Homeland Security nearly complete say over the company's U.S. corporate affairs and to install "state-of-the-art radiation-detection and gamma-ray inspection devices" at company expense at all current and future DP World-managed ports overseas. Experts estimate that step alone could have cost DP World as much as $100 million, though some ports where DP World operates already have some radiation-detection devices.
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There would at least have been many foreign ports the we had to worry less about.