INTERPOL Clarifies it Never Determined Authenticity of Laptops that Implicate Venezuela

[Joanne98]

, June 12, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Representatives of the International Police Organization (Interpol) told Ecuadorian Presidential Adviser Fernando Bustamante in a meeting last week that its investigation of laptop computers which Colombia claims belonged to the FARC “does not determine if the computers provided were found in the guerrilla camp of the FARC during the incursion on March 1st, if they effectively belonged to Raúl Reyes, and even less so their contents,” according to a recent missive released by the Ecuadorian Foreign Relations Ministry.

Bustamante, the chief advisor to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, met with INTERPOL representatives last Tuesday during a United Nations conference in New York. At the meeting, INTERPOL “confirmed that their forensic informational analysis does not imply the validity or the exactitude of the user files that contain,” the Ecuadorian government disclosed.

Today, Venezuela’s Vice-President, Ramón Carrizalez, echoed Bustamante’s evaluation when he said about the computer files, “This is an information that no serious person can validate. Anyone who knows how to read and write and who has some common sense will notice that these are proofs that cannot be used anywhere in the world.”

The Colombian government claims the files prove that Venezuela financed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and that Ecuador provided refuge for the insurgents. Colombia also claims to have found the computers in the wreckage of a FARC camp inside Ecuador that the Colombian armed forces bombarded last March 1st, killing FARC second-in-command Raúl Reyes, to whom Colombia says the computers belonged.

INTERPOL clarified to Bustamante that the report was an act of “independent technical assistance” and that it only confirmed that after March 3rd, Colombia complied with international standards for the treatment of evidence. Proper handling of the evidence could not be determined for the period between the attack and March 3rd.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3547

[Peace Patriot]

1. 48,055 files were changed!

COLOMBIA: Interpol Notes Improper Initial Handling of FARC Laptops
By Constanza Vieira
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42391

"Using their forensic tools, they (the Interpol experts) found a total of 48,055 files for which the timestamps indicated that they had either been created, accessed, modified or deleted as a result of the direct access to the eight seized exhibits by Colombian authorities between the time of their seizure on 1 March 2008 and 3 March 2008 at 11:45 a.m."

Also see, BoRev on Interpol
http://www.borev.net/2008/05/wait_did_they_assign_this_thin.html

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The Associated Pukes failed to report that 48,055 files were changed, in the 2-3 days before the Colombian military turned the laptops over to Interpol, for some kind of minimal technical appraisal using non-Spanish speaking techs on purpose to avoid any analysis of the content of the files. The Puke media completely mischaracterized the Interpol report, and so did the head of Interpol, who either didn't read it, or lied about Interpol's own report. This was a headline grabbing psyops/disinformation caper, if I ever saw one.

And, once again, the Bush Cartel's go-to guy, Alvaro Uribe--'president' of Colombia (if you acknowledge elections in which voters are shot dead), and former go-to guy for the Medellin Cartel--is the laughingstock of South America--and so is the United States. Rueful laughter, that is--laughter amidst cries of sorrow, and vows of "Never again!"

[Igel]

3. That's something nobody concluded.

"created, accessed, modified or deleted" does not equal "changed".

Of the 48k how many were changed? How many were deleted? How many accessed?

I recall hearing that a small number of the 48k were deleted--enough to say that you're wrong when you say all of them were simply "changed".

But they were also all copied or opened--which means they were all, at a minimum, accessed. So even if none had been deleted, modified, or created, it would still be true that "48,055 files ... had either been created, accessed, modified or deleted".

People too often forget what "or" means.

[Judi Lynn]

2. You have to wonder why the corporate media will not address this part of Interpol's statements.

Well, actually, you DON'T wonder, if you've been watching their work in horror, and disgust all these years.

How long is it going to be before the people create new mass information sources which do the work the news media pretend to do, informing the public of REAL events, truthfully?