So! A bunch of those photos that the Colombian government has been circulating to the press and claiming came from Raul Reyes’ magical laptop? Turns out they actually came from Colombian intelligence agencies, not the FARC. Oops! NACLA scholar Daniel Denvir has just published the first evidence that the Colombians have been faking the evidence.
Here’s my favorite part: Where the author confronts the “Justice Editor” of Colombia’s leading daily newspaper, and the editor’s first reaction was to defend the government source who leaked the fake news to him in the first place:
“Torres played down the notion that the Colombian government purposely leaked false information, hypothesizing the photos inclusion to be an accidental “infection” and characterizing their intelligence source as a lone actor rather than part of a Colombian government orchestrated media campaign.”There’s your skeptical press corps saving the world from tyranny, or collaborating with it or whatever. Anyway I can’t wait to sit back and watch the U.S. press
