[S]enior administration officials from the Departments of Defence, State, Treasury and Homeland Security trooped up to Capitol Hill to brief the Senate Armed Services Committee about the plan to let Dubai Ports World, a firm owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in charge of ports up and down the east coast.Noting a particularly concerning line in the 9-11 Commission — "The United Arab Emirates was becoming both a valued counterterrorismally of the United States and a persistent counterterrorism problem" — U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, asked the administration representatives: "Just raise your hand if anybody (at the witness table) talked to the 9-11 commission," said Levin.
The senator’s request was met with blank stares.
