Trump released pictures taken during the maduro raid:

Maybe they were told to pose this way to look tough, but if not, Rubio and Ratcliffe look very defensive and threatened, crossing their arms as if to subconsciously shield their bodies.

Covering the mouth is usually a subconscious expression of knowing things you cannot possibly let the people around you know. Rubio headed the Senate Select Committee on intelligence, which has oversight of the entire US IC. That is probably the first thing the conspiracy would compromise, after the ICIG. So I would assume he is watching a conspiracy he was a part of being taken down, and knows things he cannot speak of.

Rubio's expression here is weirdly dejected, IMO.

Ratcliffe again with the crossed arms, and it does not look posed, given the slight awkwardness of the right hand. Maybe here, as a pear-shaped pencil-pushing desk-driving intel weenie, he feels inferior to Hegseth’s Combat Arms guy, handling the work on the ground with the trigger pullers of Delta.

Other news said Maduro felt so secure he had given half the military leave for Christmas vacation, thinking Trump would never launch, and oddly, all of the close security he had (presumably now deceased) were Cubans. John MacAfee once said when he was in Cuba the street surveillance was all CIA-tradecraft/trained. And of course, Cuba was prominent in the Havana Syndrome story.

Newsmax says Congressional leadership tried to sabotage the operation, hopping to portray the dead troops and failed op as a Trump failure: https://x.com/Realpersonpltcs/status/2007611305503682993

Venezuela as the central headquarters of Cabal ops in our hemisphere: https://www.anonymousconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image-82.png

A quick historical rundown of the CIA and Bush Clan’s interactions with Venezuela. There is a lot of talk about the Bush’s being involved in the drug trade floating about, including Jeb moving to Venezuela for a while with his wife to set up a bank down there for Poppy to use for special projects. I have no idea if it is all true, though Poppy Bush may have viewed it as just normal CIA behavior, given Ted Shackley’s exploits. This is a period in which it will be difficult to discern the truth, as the closer you get to the outing of what has really been going on, the more disinformation will begin flying around to try and obfuscate that. I think it is clear Cabal turned Venezuela into a denied area for Western intelligence, and there had to be a reason for that. It would appear it was to beta-test its voting machine-based election rigging, though there could be other reasons as well, such as bio-experimentation. Regardless, I consume as much data as I can now, and put a lot of it here, but I do not necessarily believe any of it to be true. Instead I merely file away all the accounts, hoping with time, specific certainties will emerge and make sense of it all. As far as I am concerned, every single facet of what you are seeing could be a fake production, and Maduro is merely an actor playing a role for the next few months, before being quietly shipped to an Island in Tahiti with Epstein and Timothy McVeigh.

Curious, what a search of Q-posts comes up with:https://x.com/KimRambo17/status/2007648023573365186

Nearly 3% of the entire population of Venezuela was brought into America by the Biden administration. And these were mostly all surveillance assets, criminals, and the mentally ill.

Orthodox Jewish judge Alvin Hellerstein to preside over Maduro case in Manhattan. Maduro was very anti-Israel. On the other hand, this judge has been very pro-Cabal in every case which has come before him, trying to prevent Trump from using the Alien Enemies act, and preventing Trump from moving his case from State to Federal court. Will loyalty to Israel overcome his need to support Cabal?

Chinese air defenses in Venezuela fell apart in the face of US electronic warfare. I would not doubt there is impressive technology hidden away in the Pentagon, which would make what was used in Venezuela seem tame. Beijing has to be wondering just what it would face in a conflict over Taiwan now.