Trump Admin Authorizes Covert CIA Action in Venezuela: NYT

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials ...

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"The new authority would allow the C.I.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela"

We're at war with Venezuela.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-15 02:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Dictators like wars. And so the United States as a new one.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-15 02:48 PM | Reply

We're at war with Venezuela.

#1 | POSTED BY ZED

That is not rightthink!

We are not at "war". We are having a "non-international armed conflict".

Now that's some double plus good thunking.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-15 02:52 PM | Reply

Anyone talking about peace in the Middle East?

That's so yesterday.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-15 03:00 PM | Reply

Peace?

It was a ceasefire that Israel immediately abandoned.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-15 03:02 PM | Reply

They have the largest oil reserves in the world. We're going in hot sooner or later, it's what America does.

Oil reserves in Venezuela

#6 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-15 03:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-15 03:22 PM | Reply

Didn't yall vote for him because he wasn't going to get us involved in foreign conflicts?

Now he's starting them and yall are like "duhhhhhh MAgA!!!"

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-15 04:12 PM | Reply

It's not very covert if the New York Times is writing about it. It was leaked on purpose......why?

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2025-10-15 04:37 PM | Reply

Covert is not the same thing clandestine.

#10 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-15 04:43 PM | Reply

Covert is not the same thing as clandestine.

#11 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-15 04:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

History will know this as the EPSTEIN COVER-UP WAR... if there is any history other than the one from King Trump.

So I wonder if Mara Corina Machado's Nobel Prize is one of the kidnapping targets?

Also what she'll think about Trump undermining all the peaceful progress she's made over the years by murdering Venezuelan politicians and military leaders?

But hey.... it's not easy being the 51st state since Canada and Greenland have refused.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-15 06:38 PM | Reply

Grenada better watch their back.

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-15 09:41 PM | Reply

Recall that the top legal counsel at CIA is a 40-year-old Federalist Society/Heritage Foundation type of zealot: drudge.com

Don't expect Solomonic erudition from Michael Ellis, rather legal rationales to conduct illegal or immoral activities.

The Federal Register should be monitored for new Executive Orders. Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan on 4 Dec 1981, prohibits assassination as a matter of national policy, but does not expound on its meaning or application.

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-17 03:23 AM | Reply

4 Non Blondes - What's Up
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One of those songs where the title of the song is not present in the lyrics.

Odd, infrequent, but not unheard of.

That aside ...

Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
[Verse 1]
Twenty-five years and my life is still
Tryin' to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man
For whatever that means

[Pre-Chorus]
And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
"What's going on?"
...

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-17 03:42 AM | Reply