President Bush didn't even know of the impending deal to turn over six ports to a UAE company until after it was approved:

President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday.

Defending the deal anew, the administration also said that it should have briefed Congress sooner about the transaction, which has triggered a major political backlash among both Republicans and Democrats...

Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, incredibly, didn't know about it (via Malkin) until just this last weekend:

SEC. RUMSFELD: There were Defense Department and -- I think as I said, there were six departments that were involved in the process in one way or another, and the Defense Department was one of them. The lead was the Department of Homeland Security.

Q Are you confident that any problems with security -- from what you know, are you confident that any problems with security would not be greater with a UAE company running this than an American company?

SEC. RUMSFELD: I am reluctant to make judgments based on the minimal amount of information I have, because I just heard about this over the weekend.

If Mr. Rumsfeld didn't know about it until the last few days then it is reasonable that the general public, and Congress, would not know about it either, which makes this assertion by the Washington Post all the more ludicrious:

None of the U.S. politicians huffing and puffing seem to be aware that this deal was long in the making, that it had been reported on extensively in the financial press, and that it went through normal security clearance procedures, including approval from a foreign investment committee that contains officials from the departments of Treasury, Commerce, State and Homeland Security, among other agencies...

Might it be that the we didn't know more about this a little earlier because of the Post's and the rest of MSM's hilarious obsession with the Cheney shooting incident? For the Post to turn around now and criticize everyone for their ignorance of this story just doesn't pass muster at this point.