This week we learned that Bush Administration Sells Port Security To Highest Foreign Bidder.

Dubai Ports World is controlled by the UAE royal family. The decision to grant the $6.8 billion sale to Dubai was made by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States...

So Gonzales, Rice, Rumsfeld, Snow, and an other Bush administration officials conducted a security review and decided--unanimously--that the sale did not post a national security threat. How thorough was their investigation? They did not conduct background checks on senior managers of the company, nor did they ask how the company screens its own employees. You know, just in case a terrorist wants to infiltrate the company that now has unprecedented and unfettered access to our ports....

As soon as I saw this story, my paranoia kicked into high gear. This awarded contract was not just boneheaded, it seemed to be criminally negligent or as some on the lefty talk radio called it, treason. This had to be about oil & gas, right? There had to be a connection in there somewhere. This story is about what I found out. Along the way, we'll find out some stuff out about oil & gas activites in the Middle East and future plans there. I can't say I found any definite relationship between this contract and fossil fuels production & exports. The evidence for a connection I lay out is purely circumstantial.