Watchman: Once More, Blinken Circumvents Congress to Transfer Weapons to Israel

HNewsWire: By SRH, Once more, Blinken circumvents Congress to transfer weapons to Israel The American people have once again been made aware of who is in power by our Ruling authorities. On Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the $147.5 million sale of 155 mm artillery shells to Israel using emergency powers, eschewing the regular congressional approval process for military sales for the second time since the commencement of the Gaza War. A spokesman for the State Department stated on Friday that "given the urgency of Israel’s defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to determine an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer." The same emergency procedure was employed by Blinken earlier this month to authorize the transfer of 14,000 tank shells—worth more than $106 million—to Israel. Artillery ammunition...