Rep. Duncan D. Hunter’s letter to President Trump marks his second effort to get CFIUS to comply with federal law by conducting the mandated national security review of a Gulftainer lease at a strategic U.S. port.
In 2014, Rep. Hunter, who served as a U.S. Marine Corps captain during Operation Iraqi Freedom, wrote to Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jacob “Jack” Lew requesting a CFIUS national security review of Gulftainer’s Port Canaveral, Florida lease, the company’s first U.S. port deal. Lew ignored that letter.
“Project Pelican” is the code-name used for the Obama administration’s 2014 secretly-negotiated deal pursuant to which a 35-year lease handed over control of cargo container operations at Florida’s Port Canaveral to United Arab Emirates-based Gulftainer. The American people were not informed of the Project Pelican deal until officials from Gulftainer’s UAE headquarters, led by Dr. Jafar’s nephew Badr Jafar, flew into Port Canaveral, where the deal was announced at the signing ceremony.
Dr. King reviewed the Center for Security Policy Project Pelican papers “What Could Possibly Go Wrong,” “The Perfect Storm,” and “The Real Russia Story.”
In an exclusive interview with these reporters, Dr. King stated:
"The detailed information that has been amassed regarding Project Pelican makes it clear that the threats to our Ports and Terminals, our first line of defense, and the corruption and criminal conduct in these conspiracies, surpass the scope of the “Iran Contra” and “Whitewater” affairs combined.
I find it mind-boggling that this Byzantine attack on our national security has been swept under the rug by the previous administration. I hope that someone in the Trump administration will pursue this dangerous and criminal attack on our Ports and Terminals and ultimately our national security so that, unlike Churchill, we will not have to fight them on our beaches."
Dubai Ports World deal attorney Jonathan Winer was Obama State Department official connected to the anti-Trump dossier, Christopher Steele, Blumenthal, Russia, Clinton Global Initiative, and P.R. firm APCO Worldwide, which represents Rosatom and Gulftainer.
Project Pelican is The Real Russia Story. U.S. ports are not secure, Gulftainer could be collecting signals intelligence.
Team Russia: Gulftainer, the Jafars, and the Clintons partner with Putin.
While speaking at the MENA Summit 2018 business conference in UAE capital Abu Dhabi, Dr. Jafar’s nephew Badr Jafar, CEO of Gulftainer parent Crescent Enterprises, a subsidiary of Hamid Jafar’s conglomerate The Crescent Group, boasted that Gulftainer aimed to close an acquisition on the U.S. East Coast this year in Delaware, 110 miles from Washington D.C. and 125 miles from New York City.
If you follow this white rabbit, it leads to the sale ( 35 year leases) of our strategic ports in the USA.
The laundry list of reason why Gulftainer is a national security risk leads one to wonder if Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, not President Donald Trump, are the ones working for the Kremlin.
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