Diane Sare, Independent Presidential candidate, put out a statement Oct. 6 denouncing Defense Secretary Hegseth’s new automatic war department, called the “Autonomous Warfare Command.” The candidate’s primary point: “Taking human beings out of decision-making roles could lead to nuclear war. Obviously that is the … main reason why, as President of the United States, I will end it,”

However, Sare also rejects Hegseth’s drone war command as “a tool for billionaire members of the ‘Epstein Class’ to continue lining their pockets” with taxpayer’s money. The Autonomous Warfare Command will be run by that “patriotic billionaire,” ex-hedge fund CEO (Cerberus Capital Management) Stephen Feinberg, out of his Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) in the Pentagon, which is staffed by former executives of his hedge fund. The Pentagon OSC is essentially a slush fund, says Sare, that skirts Defense Department rules and Federal oversight to let the Pentagon make private company acquisitions or buy private company stocks.

Sare points to reports by the Project on Government Oversight “that Feinberg’s name appears in at least 20 Epstein documents, and Cerberus is mentioned no less than 360 times. Feinberg’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is merely a casual one when compared to the intimate friendship and business dealings Epstein had with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick—quite literally Feinberg’s ‘partner in crime’—who was allowed to lie his way through a Congressional hearing on the Epstein matter.”

Sare calls on her supporters to increase opposition to the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA), Section 1217 in the Senate Version, which calls for a merger of Israeli and American military technology. The House has passed this NDAA, but the Senate version has thus far been blocked amidst widespread opposition.