U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland

[highplainsdem]

Source: WSJ

The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island, according to two people familiar with the effort.

Several high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a “collection emphasis message” to intelligence-agency heads last week. They were directed to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American resource extraction on the island.

The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island.

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A collection-emphasis message helps set intelligence-agency priorities, directing resources and attention to high-interest targets. The Greenland order, which went to agencies including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, underscores the administration’s apparent commitment to seek control of the self-governing island. It forms part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization member and a decadeslong ally.

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Read more: https://www.wsj.com/world/greenland-spying-us-intelligence-809c4ef2

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Not The Onion.

[Ocelot II]

1. What the actual platinum-plated diamond-studded FUCK?

[Marthe48]

2. Will they see puffins waving hello?

How I wish this really was television and we could turn the channel.

[sop]

3. "According to two people familiar with the effort"...

Spying operations are kept secret, so who leaked this?

[JBTaurus83]

4. Is there really much to spy on?

I believe about 40,000 people live there..

[jls4561]

5. Undoubtedly Fatass 47 will manufacture an MS-13 connection to the island, declare a national security

emergency and invade.

[John1956PA]

6. He will produce a photo of footprints in the snow spelling MS13.

[2MuchNoise]

8. LOL. Yeah I know. Funny but not funny.

[John1956PA]

11. His opponents might be inclined to spell his name with a different form of snow writing.

[RazorbackExpat]

19. In Trump's favorite color--

yellow "gold"

[ret5hd]

9. even worse...GL-14...

some of the most baddest natives you’ve never heard of.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. To be followed by an executive order declaring

The Wall Street Journal. a threat to national security and ordering that its employees be banned from federal buildings.

[BidenRocks]

10. Are they going to live with the locals?

Pass a quick law stating that Spies Will Be Executed!

[Eugene]

12. Dump is doing deep cuts on intelligence and focus what's left on the conquest of Greenland?

Forgive me if this sounds tinfoil hat, but if a hostile power wanted to wreck the United States by installing a saboteur as leader, they couldn't find a better candidate than Krasnov.

[Zorro]

13. An attack on Greenland might be in the offing

to distract from Trump's tariff deal failures and its impact on the economy.

[Martin68]

14. Oh, I'll bet there's a lot to discover spying on Greenland. Like how fast the ice is melting and other coool stuff!

[groundloop]

15. This is so fucking embarassing... I visited Greenland 2 years ago, now I'm too ashamed to go back again.

I was considering a return trip but I fear that tRump has poisoned the Greenland peoples attitude toward Americans. When I was there the government was stepping up efforts to attract American tourists, I suspect they don't want to have much to do with us anymore.

Whatever tRump touches tRump kills.

[Iamscrewed]

16. F tRump

Get ready, here we go. Or stop the stupidity.

[Botany]

17. Early results from our remote sensor image capture

[Grokenstein]

18. It can no longer be denied: We are the baddies.

[mackdaddy]

20. This is why Hogsbreth is getting rid of top generals from the pentagon.

Removing any opposition to the nutcase orders to invade Greenland, Canada and Panama to start.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

21. Canada too, or not yet?

And is the separatist movement in Alberta organized by Heritage and funded by AIPAC? Asking for a friend.

[jmowreader]

22. I would be...SO fired right now if I was a collection manager

1. Under provisions of (double-secret book that says you can't do this shit), absent exigent circumstances no collection against allies of the United States shall be conducted.

2. Examples of exigent circumstances sufficient to authorize collection tasking against an ally of the United States are counterdrug/counterespionage operations in which inadvertent collection of allied communications may occur. All such intercept of allied communications shall be handled under Agency minimization directives.

3. Having a president with a one-inch penis who wants to invade an allied nation to show how manly he is, or whatever in the holy fuck is this stupid bastard's justification for committing an international crime, is NOT an exigent circumstance.

4. This agency cannot and will not collect intelligence on any allied nation, and the rest of the US intelligence community similarly refuses to do this.

[lanlady]

23. How very Soviet

Identify potential sleeper agents and useful idiots to put in positions of power on the day we "liberate" Greenland from Danish bourgeois capitalism.