By Sputnik International
Trump advisor Peter Navarro lobbied to exclude Canada from the Five Eyes intel network, UK media reported. Navarro denied the claim, stating the US would “never, ever jeopardize national security with allies like Canada.”
But given the harm the intel coalition has done to Trump, Americans and relations with allies over the years, perhaps removing members or dismantling the organization altogether wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Here’s why:
🔸 In 2024, Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger revealed that Obama’s CIA chief had worked with Five Eyes partners to skirt restrictions on domestic spying to illegally tap Trump’s 2016 campaign, targeting Trump and over two dozen of his surrogates.
🔸 In 2013, NSA contractor-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed his former employer’s work with the Five Eyes using tools like PRISM and XKeyscore to engage in a global, unfathomably massive warrantless spying program targeting foreigners and Americans alike.
🔸 Besides ordinary people, the Snowden leaks revealed Five Eyes spying on allied countries’ leaders, from Chancellor Merkel of Germany to President Hollande of France.
🔸 The Five Eyes have also been linked to diplomatic crises between Western powers and the developing world, with the ongoing spat between Canada and India over the extraterritorial killings of Sikh separatists accompanied by allegations of a Five Eyes plot to destabilize India.
🔸 The Five Eyes’ shady activity goes back decades, with the ECHELON surveillance program, launched in the 1970s, ostensibly to monitor the Eastern Bloc, actually used to intercept communications worldwide.
🔸 In the late 1990s, it was revealed that ECHELON had been used by US corporations to spy on their European competitors.
🔸 Similar mischief was reported on by WikiLeaks in 2015, with Japanese officials and companies monitored by the NSA using Five Eyes during talks on the TPP trade pact.
