Neocons Run Congress

Democrats and Republican neocon Marco Rubio have teamed up to attempt to prevent the USA's commander in chief from withdrawing from the European military alliance. In past years people thought "neocon" meant Republican, and now we know the neocons run both of the big parties in Washington D.C.

Congress approves bill barring presidents from unilaterally exiting NATO

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Under the measure, advocated by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the president would be prohibited from withdrawing from NATO without the approval of two-thirds of the Senate or separate legislation passed by Congress.

Kaine and Rubio had tried to advance similar measures since 2021. Passage of the defense policy bill this week marked the first time the House had embraced the tactic.

The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee did not respond to questions about why the chamber accepted the provision.

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Funding the Pandemic, Hiding the Communications

Anthony Fauci and friends were funding gain-of-function research in the Wuhan China lab where the virus may have originated. To hinder inquiry, Team Fauci used non-government emails to communicate and avoid open records obligations. These federal government employees should be reprimanded for hiding communications. The virus funding fiasco is another matter which Congress may like to investigate.

“As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly,” wrote David M. Morens, a high-ranking NIH official, in a September 2021 email, one of a series of email exchanges that included many leading scientists involved in the bitter Covid origins debate. “Stuff sent to my gmail gets to my phone,” he added, “but not my NIH computer.”

“The lab leakers are already stirring up bullshit lines of attack that will bring more negative publicity our way — which is what this is about — a way to line up the [gain-of-function] attack on Fauci, or the ‘risky research’ attack on all of us,” wrote Daszak in one email on September 7.

“Do not rule out suing these assholes for slander,” wrote Morens in response.