Members of CFIUS-approved the Port Sale

[w8liftinglady]

The Secretary of the Treasury is the Chair of CFIUS,
The other CFIUS member agencies are the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Commerce, OMB, CEA, USTR, OSTP, the NSC, the NEC and the newest member, the Department of Homeland Security

sec of treasury-Secretary John Snow
sec of state-Secretary Condoleezza Rice
sec of defense-Donald Rumsfeld
sec of justice dept-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
sec of commerce-Secretary Carlos Gutierrez
OMB-Joshua B. Bolten
CEA-Katherine Baicker and Matthew J. Slaughter
USTR-Rob Portman,ambassador;Rob Lehmann-chief of staff
NSC-The National Security Council is chaired by the President. Its regular attendees (both statutory and non-statutory) are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the statutory military advisor to the Council, and the Director of Central Intelligence is the intelligence advisor. The Chief of Staff to the President, Counsel to the President, and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy are invited to attend any NSC meeting. The Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget are invited to attend meetings pertaining to their responsibilities. The heads of other executive departments and agencies, as well as other senior officials, are invited to attend meetings of the NSC when appropriate.

NEC-Allan Hubbard is Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council (NEC).
Dept homeland security-Michael Chertoff

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Thank you

Just the information I wanted

[Klukie]

2. Wow!

Thanks.

[w8liftinglady]

3. no big surprises-PNAC

[JDPriestly]

4. Bought and sold by Saudi Arabia and its oil minions

in the US and UK. You see, as I understand it, the oil companies that owned the oil fields in the Middle East before the Shah and eventually all the other Middle Eastern nations nationalized them actually entered into agreements to resell the oil to the oil companies. I don't know if those agreements are still in place, but they resulted in the oil industry being dependent on and thus controlled by the governments of the Middle Eastern countries for certain portions of the oil that they refine and sell around the world. Thus, let's say hypothetically (I don't know that this fact is true) that Company X owned an oil field in Saudi Arabia before the oil there was nationalized. Upon nationalizing it, Saudi Arabia entered into contracts with Company X that guaranteed that S.A. would sell a certain amount of oil to Company X so that Company X could process and distribute it. Company X is therefore in the pocket of the Saudi Arabians. I may be wrong, but that is the way I understand that it worked and as far as I know still works. Thus, the owners and managers of big companies like Company X, etc. actually rely on Saudi Arabia -- or the other oil countries -- for their income. The oil companies are actually their bosses -- and they have huge amounts of money and, I would imagine, own interests in every important strategic business interest in the U.S.

[w8liftinglady]

5. kick-do some digging and find the common denominator

[Coexist]

6. very interesting... n/t

[w8liftinglady]

7. more nepotism -thanks to cheney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cheney
Elizabeth Cheney-secretary of state for near eastern affairs(under Condoleeza Rice)

and her husband,Philip Perry

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12920
deputy secretary homeland security
No doubt CCA’s standing at DHS is enhanced by the fact that one of the firm’s former lobbyists is not only Dick Cheney’s son-in-law, but the department’s general counsel. The political appointments awarded by President Bush to Philip J. Perry, who happens to be married to Cheney’s daughter Elizabeth, have included jobs at the Department of Justice and the Office of Management and Budget. In 2003 Perry returned to his private law and lobbying practice with Latham & Watkins’ government contracts group, only to be appointed in 2005 to the DHS post.

[sattahipdeep]

9. I see no other way out

WE NEED A REMO! The article says we can't do anything
about it only bu$h can like he would care enough to lift
a finger against business.... even to support this country
or the people of this country.

[w8liftinglady]

8. Kicking again-I sent my LTTE re this

Selling our safety to the highest bidder...
To all diehard Republicans who continue to support this administration:you have just sold your soul.The sale of control of our major ports to Dubai Ports World,based in the United Arab Emirates,is yet another example of the total disregard for the American citizen that this administration has.Most of the 9/11 terrorists lived in,banked in,or were funded by the UAE.In 2003,prior to our invasion of Iraq,the UAE offered asylum to Saddam Hussein.
Let's review the members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States(CFIUS)-the group who approved this sale:
Secretary of Treasury John Snow-who was the CEO of CSX Corp(a rail company),who sold out to ...guess who...DP World,in 2005 for 1.4 billion dollars.Snow received 24 million dollars in stock options from CSX when he was appointed as Sec of the Treasury.The president and his associates,the vice President,The Sec. of State(Rice),Sec. of Defense(Rumsfeld),Sec. of the justice Dept.(Gonzales),National security council,a few other organizations,...and the Sec. Of Homeland Security-CHERTOFF!We have already seen the incompetance of the Department of Homeland Security.We know that the top members of the Government belong to a right-wing think tank Project for a New American Century(PNAC),which also advocated the invasion of Iraq.PNAC's agenda is global economic domination for it's members,so you can bet that Halliburton,Lockheed Martin,and the other usual players stand to make out well,while our country is further weakened.These people the you Republicans support don't care about you, or your family,or the country.This is yet another example.When will you wise up?