Is the U.S. Planning to Assassinate Maduro?

[Uncle Joe]

The U.S. is continuing to blow up boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific despite growing international condemnation, while the Trump administration reportedly considers launching airstrikes on Venezuela or even assassinating President Nicolás Maduro.

“We are committing wanton criminal acts of assassination in the Caribbean [against] innocent people who haven’t been found guilty of anything, and kind of setting the stage for an attack on Caracas itself in an attempt to take out its leader,” says Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst at the National Security Archive.

Kornbluh also discusses the legacy of the Church Committee 50 years ago, which investigated abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies, including coups and assassinations abroad.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. As far as Trump goes, I don't think it's off the table.

[Walleye]

2. Aren't they ever gonna come up with some bogus claims about fentanyl death being reduced?

We’ve known for a long time that attacking the drug suppliers does not solve the drug problem. Also, they are putting us all in danger for something that doesn’t endanger anybody unless they take Black market drugs. They won’t deal with the number one cause of death for youth, which is guns. I am never gonna get accidentally shot by a stray fentanyl pill.

[Bayard]

3. He's already sent in the CIA

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ex1jq9pdvo

Assassination could be not far behind.