Congress Chose Not to Look: Venezuela, War Powers, and the Oversight That Never Happened

There are moments in foreign policy where the loudest thing in the room is not a bomb, a press conference, or a presidential declaration, but a silence.

The silence I’m referring to is congressional.

As events now unfold in Venezuela, with reports that U.S. forces have captured figures at the very top of the Maduro regime and that the United States may ov…