by Patel Patriot at Patel Patriot’s Devolution Series
On July 7th, 2022, Julie Kelly posted a screenshot on twitter of an amendment to the NDAA put forth by Adam Schiff. Here is Julie’s 3 tweets on the topic:
Her commentary is mostly accurate but there is something about this that everybody is missing. We need to look closer at specifically what Adam Schiff’s proposed amendment would actually be amending.
So the amendment is adding a subsection to “Section 271 of title 10, United States Code.” Before looking at what is being added, let’s look at section 271:
Here is what Schiff’s amendment adds to the end of the above section:
The addition states that information obtained by or with assistance of the military cannot be used as evidence in basically any fashion (the key one here being grand juries) if it violates section 1385 of title 18.
Finally, we need to look at what “posse comitatus” actually is based on the definition directly from our military:
Essentially this means that “unless authorized by the constitution or Act of Congress,” the military is not allowed to participate with civilian law enforcement in any fashion here within the United States.