Pentagon e-mails suggest distrust over ally Canada

As far as diplomacy goes, trust no one and always carry a big stick.

Canadian 'spy coins' prompted questions in U.S. about northern neighbour
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2009-12-03 10:10:42

What a fuggin paranoid country.

Actually, if you think about it, the story says a lot about the state of US espionage technology when it is so easily accepted that a transmitter can be small enough to place inside a coin.

Um well yeah okay....
...but what's it going to transmit? No way of knowing who is saying what.

I don't think it says anything about technology considering the rumour started with imo, some pretty dumb people. It's quite obvious - I mean a simple cursory examination - that there's no transmitter there. This is a simple case of "I've never seen a coin like that before - it must be something nefarious"

In think the pentagon is professionally paranoid.

I think there are sections to the Pentagon devoted to this. Understandable, but I'm just saying.

I remember reading the US plan to invade and knock out Canada from...I think the 1930s, if, IIRC, Great Britain went to war against the United States for whatever reason, and Canada sided with the UK over the US. It was an interesting read, and it makes you wonder what "US Invasion Plan" The UK has in some file room.

Spy Coins?

News Later for the US Department of Defense: Canada is not a bad guy. Where is this paranoia coming from?

Somebody from the Department of Defense has had a bad acid trip.

How fast you have forgotten the Iran affair America and the safty we gave your people.

hehe, ya I remember hearing about this a few years back.

Sometimes you just got to say: Ridiculous

Sweet, our failed immigration policy that brings in thousands of terrorists that's primary goal is to cross the border and terrorize the United States including the 9/11 high-jackers. Now we are bugging coins. We are awesome.

*Ends U.S. delussion*

I agree!

That, or the US espionage people view Canadians as Rock Stars.