Kerry on PortGate:"They look like Keystone Kops trying to escape blame"

[kpete]

John Kerry on the Commerce Committee Hearing on the Dubai Ports Deal
Posted by Pamela Leavey
February 28th, 2006 @ 8:25 am
John Kerry released the following statement today regarding the Commerce Committee hearings on the Dubai port takeover deal:

“This Dubai ports deal has tapped into legitimate concern about the state of our port security and called into question the judgment and competence of the administration officials who rubberstamped it without a real security review.

“The administration wants us to ‘take their word for it’ that there are no security concerns. Why should we? A secret government committee hastily approved this without even conducting the 45-day national security investigation required by law. The Secretaries of Homeland Security and Treasury look like the Keystone Kops trying to escape blame. The Coast Guard says it lacked the most basic intelligence information about the company. And to top it off, the President says he didn’t know about the deal, but he’s prepared to use his veto pen for the first time in his presidency over it.

“No wonder Americans are concerned. They deserve answers and so does Congress. Anything less than full transparency is unacceptable. Today at the Commerce Committee we’ll demand answers.”

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=2081

[babylonsister]

1. I couldn't agree more! Demand full transparency! And

love the comparison to the Keystone Kops-so appropriate! :rofl:

[LaurenG]

2. I don't criticize the message or the messenger

I do wonder what good any of this is though. What are we going to do about the state of our country? It's only getting worse by the day.

[kurth]

3. Bush's SOLE purpose in life is to fuck up America

It's time for payback.