"The meeting came a day after President Trump spoke to Ms. RodrĂguez on the phone and on the same day he met with MarĂa Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition and a Nobel laureate."
After months of infiltration into the country and the government in Venezuela by CIA operators and just a couple weeks after one of the most extraordinary joint military operations in the history of the world (which could not have happened without the CIA's work pre-raid), the Director of the CIA just strolled into Caracas and told the the communist regime,
"The United States looks forward to an improved working relationship."
At the detention hearing on Dec 30, we learned that prosecutors had a 2-count indictment against Cole from a "local grand jury," meaning one empaneled by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia—not one empaneled by the federal court.