Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Hugo Chavez, the FARC laptop, and the non-existent emails
http://3.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_FxCl-zDjIOQ/SVK_J-c_UxI/AAAAAAAADl8/_kiVEzQSIHI/s400/fake.jpg~snip~
Excerpt from report:
(F)or nine long months after the Colombian military obliterated the Farc camp, leaving only one survivor: that amazing bombproof laptop, the official version stood largely unchallenged. Chavez was damned as a sponsor of terrorism, his reputation sullied, his honesty called into question.
Then, in early December, the official version, already widely disbelieved across Latin America, began to crumble. The Colombian government-appointed investigator, Captain Ronald Coy, stated under oath that he had found only word documents in the laptop, and not a single email:
QUESTION: “Please state to this office if you have found in the electronic elements seized from Raul Reyes, files corresponding to email messages sent to or received by him.”
COY’S ANSWER: “Proper emails have not been found so far. A large amount of e-mail addresses have been found, but Reyes kept the information stored in word and other Microsoft software.”
http://lanr.blogspot.com/2008/12/hugo-chavez-farc-laptop-and-non.html