Reply #32: Sometimes a partial quote is a lie.

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"Other key findings confirm that the Colombian Judicial Police computer forensic experts followed internationally recognized principles in the handling of electronic evidence from the time they received the exhibits on 3 March 2008. However, between 1 and 3 March, direct access to the seized computer exhibits by Colombia's first responder anti-terrorist unit in order to view and download their contents did not follow internationally recognized principles in the handling of electronic evidence under ordinary circumstances. INTERPOL's experts verified that this direct access and downloading had no effect on the content of any of the user files on the eight seized computer exhibits."

So they didn't follow procedure. However, this had no effect on the contents--they merely didn't follow procedure.

But "INTERPOL's report also emphasized that the remit of its technical examination was not to evaluate the accuracy or the source of the exhibits’ content" seems a well-grounded comment. Interpol isn't saying that what the documents say is accurate--they have no where of knowing. They also don't know if the documents' purported source is as indicated, either by the Colombians or the documents themselves--neither hinting there's doubt nor dispelling doubt. Just that the Colombians didn't alter the documents.