Israel Usurps US Constitutional Authority. “US Congress, A Friend of Israel”
It might come as no surprise that the US Congress, which has proven to be a favorite friend of Israel, decided to legally formalize Israel’s widespread military participation within the US Government without public hearings or a public debate; what may be surprising is the depth of compliance to hand over a wide range of classified and covert information to a foreign government including its military industrial complex and its intelligence industry; the effect of which may ultimately eliminate the Constitutional status of the US as a sovereign and independent government.
Since the Federal legislature has seen corruption by a foreign entity, too frail and unstable to deny AIPAC’s lucrative benefits, the shift in loyalties represents a traumatic conflict within the American identity as a nation of anemic character.
The American public has already been informed about threats via the NDAA (2027 National Defense Authorization Act) HR 8800 integrating all US military-industrial complex with Israel via Section 224 creating the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.”
The NDAA has historically been considered a mega-huge annual legislation with 3,000 pages which not only funds the Pentagon but frequently contains a minutia of details buried deep within the document that potentially alters the course of US foreign policy and sometimes beyond.
At issue is Section 224 entitled “United Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Legislative Provisions” which would require the Secretary of Defense to designate an “executive agent responsible for synchronizing cooperative efforts between the United States and Israel, including bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation including more cooperation on missile defense, AI, “joint training exercises” with increased collaboration across “government, private sector, and academic institutions” in the U.S. and Israel.
There is nothing in this language to suggest that the Executive Agent will be an American; there is everything to suggest that this “Cooperation” will increase America’s militaristic agenda at the urging of Israel with the sacrifice of our own young men and women, focused on a militarist war campaign such as Iran as its totalitarian partner continues to spread death and despair globally as Israel has become the most hated country in the world.
In other words, Section 224 will provide Israel with an invasive presence which will ultimately expand and coordinate every element of the US military industrial complex to be coordinated by an ‘executive agent responsible for synchronizing efforts’ who may not be a US citizen.
The 2027 NDAA was authorized late in the day on June 4th on a 44 – 12 vote by the House Armed Services Committee with thirty Republican and twenty seven Democratic Members. The majority of its Committee Members are AIPAC recipients which gives you an idea of where their legislative loyalties lie.
In the Chair’s opening statement justifying a $1.1 trillion Pentagon budget, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala) spoke of a
“decline in readiness, critical oversight function for too long we have underfunded defense and now we seeing our munitions are low and we do not have enough aircraft and autonomous systems to ensure victory over every adversary” which begs the question of how previous Billion dollar Pentagon budgets have been frittered.
The full Committee claims to have spent fourteen hours reviewing and adopting almost 900 amendments until final passage was approved authorizing a $1.15 Trillion budget. The roll call vote on final passage remains a mystery and cannot be found at the Armed Services Committee website or at the Committee Repository which is allegedly a central location for all recorded votes.
Since committee mark-up of the NDAA can be viewed on line, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass) offered an amendment that would require a total financial accounting of the Iran war as Chair Rogers suggested that Iran ‘was not a war of choice’ as if the US was forced to attack Iran because of extenuating circumstances. Moulton’s amendment was defeated 30-27.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal) then offered an amendment to strike 224 from the NDAA pointing out that Americans are not interested in Netanyahu dictating US policy and expect fewer blank checks to Israel. Khanna’s amendment did not acquire sufficient voice votes to gain a potential recorded vote; thus leaving 224 intact.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R Fl) also offered a successful amendment to codify changing the Department of Defense title to the Department of War which garnered heated debate. Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Cal) favored Khanna’s amendment and spoke of Israel’s history in violation of the Constitution and international law; both lost on voice vote.
Support for 224 came from bipartisan supporters of Israel including Ranking Committee Member Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), Rep. Wilson (SC), Rep. Golden (Me), Rep. Bacon (Neb), Rep. Jackson (Fl) and Rep. Davis, all of whom receive AIPAC funding.
The next step for adoption of the NDAA is on the House floor for a vote on final passage. Rep. Tom Massie (Ky.) is expected to offer an amendment to strike Section 224 from the NDAA. If Massie’s amendment is not successful, the entire House Membership will either vote NO against final passage of the NDAA or vote in favor of its adoption.
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It is essential to recognize that the Committee’s home page does not provide a roll call vote per usual, traditional House Committee reporting public legislative action. In other words, we can only speculate who were the 44 votes of approval.
Pursuit of the final vote count further revealed that the Armed Services Committee’s home page is not providing the necessary, basic information that every Committee is expected to provide to keep Americans well informed of its actions. The House Armed Services Committee woefully fails in its Constitutionally imposed requirement to fulfill that obligation.
The Committee upgraded its usual roll call vote process with an electronic voting board which is maintained by the Committee clerk to report the vote tally. Most of the hundreds of amendment that were considered during June 4th were party line votes with, rare exceptions, being dominated by Republicans. There does not appear to be one source to provide a summary of all recorded votes taken during consideration of the NDAA.
The question remains how the American public can monitor those electronic vote totals to assess how its elected Members are voting on foreign policy and military-related issues or if they are exchanging their honor and integrity for an AIPAC check.
The Committee has one main telephone number (202-225-4151) for the entire Committee which elicits no response after a long series of unanswered rings with no-one-home for multiple days. There is no ability to leave a message since there is no answer with no message available.
There is also a dearth of basic information about which Members serve on which subcommittee with no real description of each subcommittee’s legislative history including no public record of the Committee’s past roll call recorded votes.
None of this malfeasance can be taken as coincidental but rather a deliberate, conscious effort to keep the American public uninformed and to avoid providing the public with details on the most controversial, the most significant legislative votes in the 119th Session of Congress.
In other words, the Armed Services Committee is woefully lacking in providing necessary public information which raises the question how Speaker Johnson allows the Committee to be a non-entity when its Constitutional responsibility to keep the public informed is non existent. A review of the Committee is as if its history has been scrubbed and deliberately swept clean of its most current legislative decisions.
Since the NDAA has already been adopted by the House Armed Services Committee (44-12), a House floor vote may be scheduled for July.
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In addition, the American public is newly aware of the Intelligence Authorization Act 2027 (S 4615) as introduced by that fine American, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark) Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Intel bill will integrate 194 pages of highly classified US intelligence data with Israel as outlined in Section 622.
HR 4615 provides the President with authority to
“expand and enhance intelligence sharing with Israel shall not be suspended or reduced or materially limited except on basis of a specific and identifiable national security concern identified by the President.”
In other words, only the President can make a determination which limits the scope of providing American’s with relevant Pentagon information.
The Intel Authorization further includes,
“…to enhance intelligence collaboration through robust intelligence sharing and analytic partnership with Israel to counter terrorism, proliferation networks, cyber threats, state and nonstate aggressors, terror financing, sanctions evasion, and other transnational security challenges that threaten both Israel and the United States.”
On May 20, 2026, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to approve HR 4615 in what appears to be a ‘closed’ committee meeting on a 14 – 3 vote of approval. Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) voted No with two other No votes not publicly disclosed per Committee policy.
As Cotton explained on X advancing an Intel Act provision
“would require the President of the United States to expand and enhance intelligence sharing with the Government of Israel across a broad list of subjects. The provision would also bar the President from suspending or materially limiting that intelligence sharing except on the basis of a specific and identifiable national security concern determined by the President.”
In other words, only the President shall have the sole authority to determine if robust highly classified US intel information represents “specific and identifiable national security concerns” so as to be denied to Israel while providing a 15-day report notifying Congressional Intel Committees of Presidential action. It will be curious to determine how Israel’s 8200 national security agency will participate without a total subversion of US Constitutional authority.
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In order to confirm which Members of Congress are receiving AIPAC money and voting in favor of Israel, it is a simple process to use to check the name of your elected Representative or Senator.
It is no coincidence that both the NDAA National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2027 and the Intelligence Authorization Act 2027 have been conveniently introduced at the same time as they both serve as perfect ploys for ‘must pass’ legislation upon which US Federal foreign policy rely; thereby, legitimizing the need to hustle both legislative packages through Congressional enactment on an ‘asap’ basis before the American public fully recognizes the ultimate threat to its Constitutional form of government.
There are strong indications that American support for Israel has declined precipitously in recent months with the knowledge of the Gaza genocide as well as the massacre in Lebanon has become widespread. Americans generally support humanitarian behavior and find the mass slaughter of civilians, especially when affecting children and their families to require war crime prosecution and conviction.
Insights continue to reveal a complete lack of respect by the Zionists for the origins of Christianity in both Gaza and Lebanon, its churches and statues and some of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the country, while abandoning millions of people with no functional society.
Nationally, support for Israel continues to dramatically decline with 60% of Americans having an ‘unfavorable’ view of Israel with President Trump’s approval has dropped to 58% disapproval.
Neither the NDAA Section 224 nor Section 622 of the Intel Authorization should be politicized by a Congress which has not proven its own strength of character as the Congress frequently adopts every meaningless piece of Zionist legislation without consideration of its content.
While Israel has not proven to be a trustworthy partner for the American people, both the NDAA and Intel Authorization need to be vetoed by Congress.
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Renee Parsons has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representative in Washington, DC. Before its demise, she was also a member of the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter.
She is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Featured image: Illustration of a proposal within the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) aimed at deepening military integration between the U.S. and Israel. Photo: MintPress News
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