[Ports] The legal angle

Filed at 5:58 pm, Thursday February 23rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa

RAW STORY has obtained a copy of a letter sent from 11 members of congress (all of them Democrats) to Attorney General Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Snow and Chertoff, raising questions about the legality of the Port deal. Go read the letter in its entirety here.

Update: BradBlog has more on the legal angle:

Patrick Malloy is an attorney who help write the law that regulates the approval of foreign investments in the United States. He says that the law requires that the President be notified on all foreign investments that pose a national security concern. The law also says that the President must report his findings to Congress where the issue could be debated.

Continue reading (multiformat video included).

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