PUTNEY-Joe Biden, the nation's top law enforcer, is breaking the Leahy Laws. According to the Washington Post: "The United States has quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began Oct. 7, amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid" - making every single tax-paying American complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Who is responsible for arresting a sitting president who is breaking the law?
Donald Trump, as a former president, has been seeking immunity for his misdeeds. But it's the sitting president who's getting it, from a clearly politicized Department of Justice.
I've been wondering lately whether the United States exports anything of greater value, dollar-wise, than the death and destruction we support all around the globe via our weapons businesses. I count in that category the creation of SARS-CoV-2 and the new, neither safe, nor effective, mRNA vaccines, as products of our (wink wink) "biodefense" efforts, directed from at least 2002 onward by Anthony Fauci. (See Paula Jardine's 8-part series "The US biowarfare project which caused the Covid-19 debacle.") It's unfortunate that that military-industrial complex effort wrought so much blowback here on our own soil. One way or another, the whole entire world is still paying for it. And will be for quite some time.
Jacqueline Brook
Putney
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