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The transcript discusses objections to merging defense bases and describes a preference for a “voice vote,” suggesting leaders want to avoid directly identifying “collaborators.” It then shifts to intelligence-sharing concerns, asking how proposed changes would be worse than “the Mossad running the CIA right now,” and stating the proposed change “enhances that control… by codifying it into law.”
The speaker explains that, “right now,” the U.S. relationship with Israeli intelligence services is “mostly transactional,” and that the U.S. “pick[s] and choose[s]” what it shares, unlike the level of sharing with “those Five Eyes countries.” They claim that under the new law being pushed—citing “Section six twenty-two in the Senate”—the U.S. would “open up a floodgate of intelligence and information into the Israeli intelligence services, whether they ask for that intelligence or not,” and that “right now” Israel “have[s] to ask for it technically.”
The transcript also argues that the new law would “hem in future presidents,” because intelligence sharing is currently controlled by a “pre— a given president,” who could restrict access. The speaker says the law would remove that “freedom of movement,” making presidential discretion less flexible.
The speaker claims there is a “groundswell of people in both parties,” including “younger people,” who are skeptical of the alliance with Israel “in its current form,” and that, in response, “the Israelis and the Zionists in Congress” are “fearful” that future politicians from either party will limit intelligence sharing. They say efforts are being made to “rein in the president’s freedom of authority on this” and to “hermetically seal this.”
A second speaker interrupts to say “It’s not gonna happen” and “We will never allow this to happen… to the United States of America.”
The transcript then mentions an upcoming discussion with “Finell,” described as “one of the most renowned naval intelligence officers in the history of the United States Navy,” who is said to have warned the country about the rise of the PLA Navy and “gave up his career” during the Obama administration. The speaker connects this to “Intelligence in the year nineteen forty-one and forty-two,” referencing “Pearl Harbor” and “Midway,” and says the discussion will involve “investigations” into “what was the real intelligence and what was fed to the president back in June of last year,” including “who is responsible for presenting it,” with the claim that there will be continued efforts “till we get to the bottom of it.”