Whose crony?

That’s what Qusan asked in comments, regarding the approval of a sale of a British company to Dubai Ports World, giving them control over six US ports.

Answer #1: Treasury Secretary John Snow.

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 department 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.

Answer #2: David Sanborn.

The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and who was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.

No shame. Cronyism trumps everything with this administration, even the golden calf forged by their own hands—post 9/11 national security where "everything changed."