CNN first reported on the CIA’s involvement in the operation.

Trump for months had threatened that he could soon order strikes on targets on Venezuelan land. He’s also taken the unusual step of publicly acknowledging that he had authorized the CIA to carry out covert action inside Venezuela.

Kinda weird the Trump administration is pushing this so hard right?

THE CIA AND THE MEDIA

After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. His 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted below. How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up

Who authorized another invasion for oil profits? Let history show it was the CIA… Which is currently under the leadership of the director Trump selected to lead the CIA, John Ratcliffe. But if anybody asks, it was the shadowy faceless government agency that is the CIA, and definitely not the Trump administration.

So deep is the deep state, that even the deeper state who currently directs them has no control over anything they do. They don’t make the rules, they just write them down, direct the media to print them, and profit from them.

Before he was directing the shadowy agency which he has no control over (and therefore holds no responsibility for what gets authorized by the CIA right?), Ratcliffe just happened to be a TX congressman who supported overturning the Chevron deference.

The Chevron deference previously meant that if a federal law was unclear about a specific issue, courts had to accept the federal agency’s interpretation.

Or as Ratcliffe would probably explain: a bunch of whiney bureaucratic hippies at the EPA have too much power over a defenseless mom and pop operation like Chevron. Luckily for Ratcliffe and Chevron (which happens to be the only U.S. company the Trump administration has allowed to remain licensed to operate in Venezuela as of the 2025 invasion) the Chevron deference was overturned in 2024…

In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretation of ambiguous laws. The decision will likely have far-reaching effects across the country, from environmental regulation to healthcare costs.

The APA, Roberts noted, directs courts to “decide legal questions by applying their own judgment” and therefore “makes clear that agency interpretations of statutes — like agency interpretations of the Constitution — are not entitled to deference. Under the APA,” Roberts concluded, “it thus remains the responsibility of the court to decide whether the law means what the agency says.”

Roberts rejected any suggestion that agencies, rather than courts, are better suited to determine what ambiguities in a federal law might mean. Even when those ambiguities involve technical or scientific questions that fall within an agency’s area of expertise, Roberts emphasized, “Congress expects courts to handle technical statutory questions” – and courts also have the benefit of briefing from the parties and “friends of the court.”

So congrats on that regulation free war and oil money Chevron, Ratcliffe, and friends of the court and Trump administration faceless government agency full of beuracrats nobody will ever be able to identify bc deep state