1. United States
2. Ill.
3. Letter

Vote against Section 1217 of the NDAA. This provision would create an "executive agent" role permanently integrating Israeli weapons technology, AI, cyberwarfare systems, and intelligence feeds into US defense programs — with no further congressional approval required. Once embedded, this integration will be nearly impossible to reverse, as the US learned the hard way when it spent years unwinding Turkey from the F-35 program. No foreign country should gain that kind of structural leverage over US defense priorities. The oversight problem alone should be disqualifying. Section 1217's "data fusion" mandate would absorb Israeli surveillance data directly into US targeting systems, and Section 622 of the intelligence appropriations bill would permanently merge intelligence streams — all at the sole discretion of the Secretary of Defense. Human Rights Watch has warned that US intelligence already shared with Israel may constitute aiding and abetting war crimes in Gaza. Deepening that integration while bypassing Congress is indefensible. If Section 1217 remains in the final bill, vote no on the NDAA. And vote no on the $3.3 billion in security assistance for Israel. The US has foreign assistance laws that prohibit military aid to governments committing human rights violations — those laws exist for a reason, and Israel is not exempt from them.