DOJ Backed US Operation To Capture Maduro, Memo Shows

By Rae Ann Varona ( January 15, 2026, 7:23 PM EST) -- President Donald Trump's legal advisers at the U.S. Department of Justice concluded days before Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture by U.S. military that the operation "falls short of war in the constitutional sense," according to a memo recently made public....

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