Thursday, March 23, 2006

Hutchison Whampoa to Run Nuke Scanners

I can hear the outcry from Congress even as I type this. Sure enough here it is:

"Giving a no-bid contract to a foreign company to carry out the most sensitive security screening for radioactive materials at ports abroad raises many questions," said Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y.

Um, Chucky boy as much as we would like to this is a company screening materials coming into the US from a foreign port. We have no jurisdiction over the Bahamas or their workers. We have to trust both this company and the Bahamian government. Or we can drum up the same xenophobic and isolationist rhetoric that killed the Dubai ports deal.

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