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Posted on 05/08/2025 7:02:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
U.S. intelligence chiefs ordered agencies to tighten surveillance on Greenland, the first tangible step toward President Donald Trump’s oft-stated goal of bringing the Arctic island under American control, sources leaked to The Wall Street Journal.
The directive instructed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Security Administration (NSA) and the CIA to identify Greenlandic and Danish figures who might back U.S. objectives and to gauge public sentiment toward American resource extraction, the outlet reported Tuesday. Its emergence triggered immediate pushback from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who accused unnamed officials of leaking in order to thwart the administration.
“The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the President by politicizing and leaking classified information,” Gabbard said in a statement to the Journal. “They are breaking the law and undermining our nation’s security and democracy.”
The “collection emphasis message,” reportedly first circulated late last week, expands intelligence priorities beyond traditional threat targets to Denmark, whose kingdom still formally includes Greenland. A National Security Council spokesman declined to discuss intelligence matters with the Journal but noted that “the president has been very clear that the U.S. is concerned about the security of Greenland and the Arctic.”
Trump has repeatedly declared — most recently in a March joint address to Congress — that Washington “needs” Greenland “for national security and even international security” as is prepared to acquire it “one way or the other.” Asked by NBC News on Sunday whether he would rule out using force, the president said he “won’t rule out anything.”
Vice President JD Vance, then-National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited Greenland in late March, drawing a sharp rebuke from Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who said the trip placed “unacceptable pressure” on Greenlanders and Danes alike.
Greenland, with its population of roughly 56,000, sits atop substantial rare earth, oil and natural gas deposits, though its harsh climate and sparse infrastructure have long complicated extraction. Former U.S. intelligence officials told the Journal the island has seldom been a high-priority collection target because limited resources are generally aimed at perceived threats, not allies.
Neither the Danish embassy in Washington nor the Greenlandic prime minister’s office immediately responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.
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I’d like to see names and punitive action on these leakers
Enough is enough
The spin on this is distorted just to embarrass Trump and thwart US policy of preventing the growth of Chinese or Russian influence into Greenland
I suspect that this is a ruse, designed to get never-Trumpers to expose themselves.
We will see what develops.
Clever Doge-types will uncover these traitorous dogs!
Nothing must stand in the way of this, the greatest of American presidents who will bring true peace to America and the World.
His agenda is a magnificent one.!
Too bad they won’t stop Trump’s amnesty plan.
I hope that’s the case but I suspect otherwise...
Find out who the treasonous asses are and fire them PUBLICLY so Americans will know who the hell they are and dox and “swat” THIER commie keisters.
“Former U.S. intelligence officials told the Journal the island has seldom been a high-priority collection target because limited resources are generally aimed at perceived threats, not allies.”
What a pantload! According to an investigation spanning 2012-2014 reported on by Reuters and the BBC, among others, “the NSA used Danish information cables to spy on senior officials in Sweden, Norway, France and Germany.” Frau Merkel herself was surveilled by the US via her cell phone....
Hang ‘em.
Or this will just go on and on.
This will not change, it cannot change until AFTER such are in jail. Not accused. Not charged. Not under trial. NO. Rotting in jail.
And, until that point this new Admin is as ineffective and possibly compromised as the previous. All we have seen so far are supposed news reports of things found. Where are the damned orange jump suits? Does the law apply to the rich and famous or doesn’t it?
If all that results is you take away their income stream then the law favors the rich. Only the rich — the ones who can pay the fine or do without income for a bit. Such gov’mt behavior will JUSTIFY a communist led revolution.
Please stop you troll. I read the quote, the interviewer lead him to that, nothing in his response led me to believe they are actively planning amnesty. But your 💩 stirring to agitate is quite obvious, given you repeated this on multiple threads regardless if pertinent to the discussion.
You’re a fool.
Exactly.
The goal has to be to get this behavior moved to the top of their “Not to Do” list”.
Now what can be done I wonder to motivate such a change.
I have ideas...
we spy on our allies and they spy on us
any takeovers there?
Everybody spies on everybody. Always have, since time began...................
Trump's statement makes no sense.
Greenland is already part of NATO, which the U.S. controls. The U.S. already has a military base there.
Why this sudden "need" to acquire Greenland?
“National Security Administration (NSA)”
National Security AGENCY.
> Why this sudden “need” to acquire Greenland?<
Do you think China will give us a better deal after they take it over?
EC
A newspaper has no shame.
Maybe you didn't read my post.
Greenland is part of NATO.
China can't take it over. Not without fighting all of NATO, including the U.S., which already has a military base there.
So once again, what rational reason for the U.S. to acquire Greenland?
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