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NYT - Trump administration authorizes covert C.I.A. action in Venezuela.

Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:24 pm
Posted by Bunk Moreland
Member since Dec 2010
66314 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:24 pm
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The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.

The authorization is the latest step in the Trump administration’s intensifying pressure campaign against Venezuela. For weeks, the U.S. military has been targeting boats off the Venezuelan coast it says are transporting drugs, killing 27 people. American officials have been clear, privately, that the end goal is to drive Mr. Maduro from power.

Mr. Trump acknowledged on Wednesday that he had authorized the covert action and said the United States was considering strikes on Venezuelan territory.

“We are certainly looking at land now, because we’ve got the sea very well under control,” the president told reporters hours after The New York Times reported the secret authorization.

Posted by lsuguy84
Madisonville
Member since Feb 2009
26218 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:25 pm to
Not so secret now
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
71327 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:25 pm to
War on Drugs 2.0: Black Ops(tm) coming Fall 2025
Posted by PsychTiger
Member since Jul 2004
106896 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:25 pm to
Who does Trump think is behind the drug trade there?
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
78959 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:27 pm to
The see eye aye meddling in other countries is definitely not what I voted fo(R).
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
162082 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:28 pm to
here we go...muh epstein, muh MTG is great, white knight for her. muh Trump is nation building, muh leak all of Trump's covert secrets, muh the walls are closing in, muh Massie is groovy.
Posted by Bunk Moreland
Member since Dec 2010
66314 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:31 pm to
Fren, I just want MAGA to stay anti-interventionist. Don't get sucked in by "war on narco terror" and muh "peach through strength."

It does make you wonder why this story came out. Is someone trying to undercut Trump? MAGA world will say it's 8D chess to scare Maduro.

Rubio deep down is what he is -- a neocon.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
71327 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:32 pm to
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Fren, I just want MAGA to stay anti-interventionist. Don't get sucked in by "war on narco terror" and muh "peach through strength."

Bailing out Argentina and now regime change in Venezuela.
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
68921 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:33 pm to
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NYT


I'll wait
Posted by Warboo
Enterprise Alabama
Member since Sep 2018
5483 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:37 pm to
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Fren, I just want MAGA to stay anti-interventionist. Don't get sucked in by "war on narco terror" and muh "peach through strength."


Maybe, just maybe, this is about shutting down the cartels and drugs being smuggled in through that country? Oh, the horror.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
162082 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:42 pm to
Hey Fren, no 47D chess smartass remarks allowed---- when DJT pulled off eleventy thousand hundredD chess with peace in the middle East.

I hear ya but I am not going to get all crazy over this like some did bomb bomb bomb bomb bombing Iran. Trump isn't dumb, my fren.

You know I am not neocon, but Maduro is the key to the democrats crime org and counting votes until they win...All while the dems party in Havana like the marxists they are. The antichrist Mamdani was on Fox News looking like a reasonable stunningly handsome lucifer.

/end private message this message will self destruct.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
138911 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:50 pm to
Hopefully the CiA can root out the fentanyl problem.
Posted by KingOrange
Mayfair
Member since Aug 2018
12570 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:51 pm to
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The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela,


I guess it’s not that secret
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
138911 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:53 pm to
Seriously, this is about Maduro selling oil to China in Chinese Yuan.

Noting gets the attention of the U.S. more than countries not trading in the dollar.
Posted by 21blackjack
Member since Oct 2025
1099 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:54 pm to
You’d rather spend money on illegal immigrants’ transitions, huh?
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
162082 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:55 pm to
THIS JUST IN: Massie & MTG report the horror and cruelty of whales, sharks, and dolphins all stoned on fentanyl.
Posted by SelaTiger
Member since Aug 2016
21188 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:55 pm to
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Bailing out Argentina and now regime change in Venezuela


Yep, helping to fund the Greater Israel project as well. Nobel Peace Award? lol GTFO!
Posted by Sofaking2
Member since Apr 2023
19263 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:55 pm to
Probably just a psyop to make Maduro paranoid.
Posted by Figgy
CenCal
Member since May 2020
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Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:56 pm to
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
138911 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:59 pm to
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cruelty of whales, sharks, and dolphins all stoned on fentanyl.


Wait, that’s cruel?
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