Official White House presses on an ax of Canada from five eye intelligence groups

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The best White House official suggested excluding Canada from the Five Eye Intelligence Network since Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about the transformation into the 51st US state.

Peter Navaro, one of the US president Closest advisersPushes the US to remove Canada from five eyes – which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand – according to people familiar with its efforts in the administration.

Trump said he wanted to attach Canada And he promised to come ahead with 25 percent import tariffs from the country when one month’s retreat is released on March 4.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudu, who will leave the post on March 9, was recently caught on an open microphone, which warns that Trump’s ambitions absorb the northern US neighbor is a “real thing”.

Wise did not respond to the requests for comment. The White House did not respond to a comment request. Trudu’s office refused to comment.

Trump stunned us allies when he made Canada his first great purpose for the tariffs, along with Mexico, saying that Ottawa did not make enough to stop migrants and drugs enter the US.

People familiar with the situation have stated that Navarre, who had easy access to the oval office because of his close connection with Trump, claims that the US should increase pressure on Canada by eviction of the country of five eyes.

It is unclear whether this idea of ​​Trump was given, but it is discussed among its officials.

Five eyes for decades have been the most important network located in the world. The US and its allies share extremely sensitive signals and human intelligence in addition to coordinating operations. A The pine station under the guidance of the CIA In Central Australia, which is the most important site to collect China’s intelligence, there is only one example of intimate intelligence.

Dennis Wilder, a former CIA official, who was the editor-in-chief of the US President’s daily intelligence briefing, stated that “five eyes” is “certainly the most successful agreement on the distribution of exploration in world history.” He noted that the partnership appeared when the US and British Code switches worked together to break German secret communications during World War II, and was expanded to include other allies in 1956.

“Any violations in these ten-year-old understanding will be met with the nachars of our opponents in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang,” Wilder said.

While Canada and New Zealand provide the least amount of exploration in the group, the ejection of any member causes criticism from other allies, as well as from the intelligence officials in Washington and abroad.

One Five Eye Intelligence official said the eviction of Canada will be very dangerous from the decades of the network.

“Sitting where I sit and look at the array of threats that come to us, we need all the partners we can get,” the intelligence official said.

Steve Benan, a former White House strategist who helped Trump win in 2016, said Canada needed to realize that Trump is not trolling, but seriously treated Wanting to attach the country.

He said that Canada lacked resources to protect itself, especially when China is trying to become an arctic power. But he said that any step into the felling of Canada from five eyes would be a counterproductive step that would just cause harm to America.

“Canada punches much higher than your weight. If you look at the military story, they were the best ally we had,” Benan said.

Navaro served as a white house in the first Trump administration. Last year he served several months in prison for refusing to testify Before the Congressional commission, she investigated the attack on January 6, 2021 on the US Capitol. His views on trade were long ago synchronized with Trump, which sometimes calls it “my Peter” and called it in December the senior trade and production advisor.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service appealed to the comments.

Additional Ilya Gridneff reporting in Toronto