Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the U.S. does not have legal justification to support launching strikes inside Venezuela.
Top officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an official from the White House Office of Legal Counsel, attended the classified briefing on Wednesday where they told lawmakers the U.S. is not currently planning to launch a land strike inside Venezuela, according to CNN.
While the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) did draw up an opinion to justify the strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean, it did not permit land strikes inside the South American country or other territories as President Donald Trump has been plotting, according to four sources cited in the report.
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