Posted on 10/15/2025 6:57:12 PM PDT by McGruff
The CIA’s operations abroad are usually shrouded in secrecy, but President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had authorized the spy agency to take unspecified action in Venezuela, an extraordinary and unprecedented acknowledgement from a commander in chief.
“Why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela?” a reporter asked Trump at the White House.
“I authorized for two reasons, really,” Trump said. “Number one, they have emptied their prisons into the United States of America."
The second reason, the president said, was narcotics trafficking.
“And the other thing are drugs. We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela,” Trump said.
The president’s highly unusual remarks about his orders to the CIA came only hours after The New York Times reported that the Trump administration had authorized the CIA to carry out covert, lethal action in Venezuela.
The CIA declined to comment on the report.
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Dial up Maduro’s paranoia to 11.
Prosecute the leaker.
SpecOps been doing it for years.
Straight talk about actual stuff. The media just can’t deal with it.
If the CIA is there for kinetic action, US Special Forces are there too.
My guess is they’re hunting cartel kingpins.
Maduro is probably terrified.
Our supposed friend, Mexico, is a hundred times worse in drug and sex trafficking!
I think they better check the Whitehouse and Pentagon for bugs and quit using cell phones. Someone’s still spying on the Trump administration.
And Whatever happened with this?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/10/03/theres-an-update-on-that-secret-service-bust-in-new-york-n2664456
I bet there’s more.
Interesting. In the past we’d find out after the fact. You know the MSM.
Why send in troops to putter around and be at a disadvantage, when you have established rabbits, who can “go to ground”, in between finalities.
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NBC is reporting that Trump is employing the CIA for the purpose that it was created for to gather information about threats to the US in hostile foreign nations. They think it was created to plant fake narratives against the President’s domestic political opposition. Russia, Russia, Russia
I call this transparency.
Maduro perpetrated one of the most brazen stolen elections ever. That is another reason. Arrest whoever leaked this. I find it hilarious that doesn’t deny it.
How did the NYT get wind of CIA actions? Transparency is distinct from leaks.
Who knows, maybe it’s best to disclose our actions and intentions here, although this is for the President to decide, not the NYT.
Just heard that at least one B-52 is shadowing the Venezuela coast. If true, there is likely other aircraft accompanying, such as a P3 Orion - and a few fighters.
“””””Our supposed friend, Mexico, is a hundred times worse in drug and sex trafficking!”””””
I’ve wondered if this is signaling to Mexico, first for getting them to listen, and second as creating an atmosphere that will make it seem less shocking and abrupt if we have to move into Mexico in time.
This is a masterful psyop. Just like Israel’s to Iran.
LMAO! Pues claro-and it is open season on los carteles, too...
One at a time.
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