DON’T JUST MERGE THE MILITARIES, MERGE THE INTELL TOO

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You may recall that recently a story broke that was about a bill pending before Congress that would merge the American and Israeli militaries. I was one of many within the alternative research community that blogged about it here:

In other words, while one party has been busy throwing open the borders of the country to all and sundry, the other one has been much more underhanded, and is sneaking things into various legislation packages, things that effectively end this country's sovereignty, forever tying its future to Israel's.  One might be inclined to call both behaviors "treason," but they're so busy redefining words when they don't fit the official narrative - remember "vaccines" and how those were redefined during the planscamdemic? - that even a George Orwell would have difficulty keeping up.

But if you thought that merging militaries was bad, wait! U.S., Senator Tom Cotton, a Republizionist from Arkansas,  has an even better idea (story shared by V.T.):

Tom Cotton Senate wants to force US to share sensitive intel with Israel A measure in a must-pass bill would dramatically increase Israeli access to American secrets

Ponder the implications of this carefully:

Buried deep inside a 192-page intelligence authorization bill is Section 622, titled “United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.” It would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and as necessary the secretary of defense, to “expand and enhance intelligence sharing with the Government of Israel” on a list of subjects that encompasses almost every topic of intelligence interest in the Middle East.

The bill, put forward by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, would prohibit any suspension, reduction, or limitation of such sharing “except on the basis of a specific and identifiable national security concern determined by the President.” Any such exception would require a report to Congress within fifteen days detailing not only the reason for the change but also the categories of information involved. The same report would require an assessment of the anticipated impact on regional security and various other matters.

So there you have it: the USA, thanks to Senator Cotton, will be required to share intelligence as a matter of course with Israel, and must justify to Congress any refusal on the part of the Executive to do so by spelling out what the unshared intelligence concerns are, and in detail sufficient to allow anyone to make a reasonable estimation of what they were.  And that means, of course, that in the event of a "failure to share," all that Tel Aviv has to do is phone up its evangelozionist supporters in the US House and Senate - like Senator Cotton - and ask what the non-shared information was all about.

But wait, just when you thought the USA's relationship with that country could not possibly become more obvious or subservient, there's this:

Israel’s strategy and that of its U.S. supporters is now to rely on ties with, and support from, the United States that are not as salient as the military aid with its prominent price tag. The strategy includes forms of military integration that are less visible than congressionally appropriated grant aid and therefore less publicly accountable. Section 224 of a defense authorization bill currently in the House of Representatives embodies this form of integration.

The mandating of intelligence sharing carries this strategy further by moving it into the shadowy world of relations between intelligence agencies. That world is even farther removed from public visibility and accountability than the defense integration, and even less likely to stimulate thoughts about American taxpayers’ money going to a foreign country. So far, Section 622 of the intelligence bill has received less attention than Section 224 of the defense bill. (Italicized emphases added)

In other words, the "integration egg" was not only hatched in Israel as the backup strategy in view of its declining popular support in this country, it is also a strategy designed to circumvent congressional oversight and therefore any political backlash and pressure from the American people.  Ponder the implications of that one for a moment. Indeed, the article itself offers a few speculations on what some of those implications might be, up to and including Israeli use of intelligence gathered by American sources to barter and broker more favorable relationships with other countries (think China, for example). And all this as the American intelligence community has raised its estimations of the dangers of increased Israeli espionage:

In intelligence, Israel is more of an adversary than an ally. Being an adversary in intelligence means indulging in the hostile act of espionage. Israel has a long record of conducting that type of hostile act against the United States. The best-known case involves the spy Jonathan Pollard, who stole such an overwhelming volume of U.S. secrets that then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stated to the court that sentenced Pollard that it was difficult “ to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant in view of the breadth, the critical importance to the U.S., and the high sensitivity of the information he sold to Israel.”

When Pollard completed his prison sentence and parole in 2020, he was given a hero's welcome, led by Netanyahu himself, on his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. There was nothing noble in Pollard’s actions. Although he liked to say he was motivated by concern about Israel’s security, before selling his espionage services to Israel he offered to sell U.S. secrets to three other countries and made the same offer to a fourth country even when spying for Israel.

The Israeli espionage threat to the United States has only intensified. Last week, NBC News reported that the Defense Intelligence Agency raised the threat level for such espionage, evidently a reflection mostly of U.S.-Israeli differences over the Iran war. The New York Times quotes an official saying that Israeli intelligence operations aimed at senior U.S. officials during the second Trump administration have become so aggressive as to be “unhinged.”

This leads me to my running dive into the canyon of high octane speculation because Cotton's dubious "insert" into the legislation would give our own intelligence free reign on American soil and citizens that it does not now have by abandoning the last tiny shred of legal and constitutional protections they have.  Have an irksome blogsite out there you don't like? Just promise to keep the information-drip line open, in return for the Mossad "cleaning things up" (they're good at that sort of thing. Just ask Gaza).  Do you have a a local Catholic or Orthodox clergyman or hierarch that has been too effective in pointing out that evangelozionism was never a component of ancient historical Christian doctrine? Just have your local evangelozionist pastor call Senator Cotton or the Republizionists in the House of (Mis)representatives, and they in turn can call Tel Aviv, and arrange for those troublesome clergymen to have conveniently fatal accidents  (and don't even get me started on the Charlie Kirk assassination).

Would any of these things be beyond our "greatest ally"?  Absolutely not. It's the Nuttyayhoo way...

See you on the flip side...

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