A life less ordinary: everyday graft in WH port grab

WASHINGTON - The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six
U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.

One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose agency heads the federal
panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to
government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise
ship terminal and Newark's container port.

Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international
port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left
for President Bush's cabinet.
The other connection is David Sanborn, who
runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and was tapped by Bush
last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration. //more//

What is shocking about this? That the WH is gonna make money off of outsourcing our ports or that the Daily News is breaking the story?

All par for the course, friends.

The Old Gray Lady is in bed with the Man Who Would Be King "George."

And there is gambling in Casablanca...