Trump administration officials on Wednesday told lawmakers that the US is not planning to launch strikes in Venezuela and doesn’t have legal justification supporting any current attacks in the land targets.

CNN quoted sources familiar with the briefing conducted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an official from the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) as saying the lawmakers were told during the classified session that the opinion produced by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to justify strikes against suspected drug boats does not permit strikes inside Venezuela itself or any other territories.

The sources further said that the “execute order" that allowed the US military action against suspected drug boats that began in Septemb

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