Bad Portsmanship! or… Who’s Minding the Shore?

I was in an Olympic state of mind till this bubbled up.
--> How is it that major deals - selling off whole swatches of the US shoreline - can go through without the knowledge of the US President or his staff? They seem oddly surprised (when not beset), by a lot of things these days.
It appears the deal was structured by one foreign government (England - in this case an ally) on behalf of another foreign concern - the UAE – a body related to those proven to be less than friendly.

All baffling to say the least. This deal was announced with only 2 weeks to go before it is to be signed, sealed and done. It involves 6 major shipping ports along US shores and Bush & friends are trying to bum rush it through the approval process. See article link below for the gory details.

I just need to ask a few basic, and pardon me, possibly dumb questions:
- Who will secure us if we can’t make a commitment to secure ourselves?
- How does all of this evolve without a hint or clue, or at least a heads-up call to Washington?
- If the UAE applied for an oversight position at your company - would you hire them to run the show?

- What do we get? It appears the American public is getting reassuring words from some of the same people who turned New Orleans and the war on terror into models of expensive disorder for reasons too complex to explain here... or anywhere else for that matter.
- Does this sound ludicrous to you?

Ultimately, we must ALL ask: Did we hire the president or his wards to provide such grossly inadequate performance?

** Here’s one answer: They should be fired… or we could just give them a Heidi Klum send off … you’re out!