Trita Parsi

Okay, they got all- And Tom Cotton just introduced this bill or this amendment that would essentially more or less merge US intelligence and Israeli intelligence by making it mandated for the United States.

What is the Tom Cotton story?

I don't know the story.

I don't know exactly why he ended up.

I mean, he was a protege of Bill Kristol and served in Iraq, if I'm not mistaken.

I'm not really sure exactly how deep his ideological commitment to this is or if it's other reasons.

But Paul Pilar, former CIA legend in many ways, someone who really stood up against manipulation of intelligence during the Bush years, trying to get us into that Iraq war, has a fantastic piece laying out exactly what this is on responsible statecraft and showing that this is an extremely dangerous situation and what they're trying to do, not only with that, but also with 224.

is to, in which they're trying to take away the aid because the aid is public, it's scrutinized, et cetera.

They're all trying to do it in some sort of a procurement accounting exercise.

So it will continue to happen, probably even more money for Israel, but it will all be hidden in the bureaucracy with no congressional oversight.

So they're recognizing exactly what is happening.

They're losing the American public, but they can use some of their last juice that they have in Washington to go push through these different reforms.

And it will become a structural impediment towards the type of healthy break, healthy detachment.

They should be in prison, all of these people.

This is happening right now.

So when you're saying that, look, they're losing Trump, you know, yes, you're absolutely right, but they're doing other things that will make it very difficult for future presidents and members of Congress to be able to break free from some of these things.

So where is this process?

It is right now in the NDAA.

It's going to be voted for, if I'm not mistaken.

Some parts of it has already been voted for, and now it's going to go to a final vote.