Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal reported that the US has accepted the information found on Raul Reyes’ computer to be genuine;

“There is complete agreement in the intelligence community that these documents are what they purport to be,” a senior U.S. official said. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has been sharing its assessments with the White House, this official said.

And of course, the Venezuelan government and FARC deny it, charging “The Empire”, “the oligarchs”, and any other boogeyman they could think of with fabricating the evidence;

Mr. Chávez has repeatedly said the files were faked by Colombia. “We don’t recognize the validity of any of these documents,” Bernardo Álvarez, Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.S., said in a Wednesday interview. “They are false, and an attempt to discredit the Venezuelan government.”

To prove there’s no connection between FARC and Venezuela, the Venezuelan Information Ministry published a letter from FARC on their website;

The FARC itself has suggested the files are fake. A FARC statement published on the Web site of Venezuela’s Information Ministry ridiculed Colombia’s claims about the computer files, saying computers couldn’t have survived the Colombian army attack “even if they had been bullet-proof.”

There. That ought to show ‘em. Who could accuse them of a connection when they publish each other’s statements? And I don’t think FARC has any actual witnesses to whether the laptops were destroyed or not. Well, none that they’ve spoken to lately anyway.

The Washington Times summarized the Wall Street Journal report;

The newspaper said the files recovered from the computer indicate Venezuela has offered to arm the rebels, possibly with rocket-propelled grenades and ground-to-air missiles, and offered FARC the use of a port to receive arms shipments.

The U.S. intelligence official said it was “entirely possible” that the Venezuelan government has already transferred weapons to the rebels, who seek to overthrow the Columbian government.

“The documents also reveal that the Venezuelan government has attempted to assist the FARC in acquiring arms and munitions,” the official said. “The extent of that flow of arms is unclear at this time, but it’s entirely possible some of those shipments have made their way to the FARC.”

Of course, the WSJ isn’t telling Colombians anything they don’t already know according to El Universal;

Colombian intelligence agencies found that a chief of the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) is present in Venezuelan territory and despite having conveyed “many times” that information to President Hugo Chávez’ government “nothing happens,” said Colombian Minister of Defense Juan Manuel Santos.

Rebel chief Iván Márquez, the successor of FARC second-in-command Raúl Reyes -who was killed by Colombian troops during a raid in Ecuador last March 1st- “is in Venezuela. Many times have we provided the coordinates and the information (to the Venezuelan government) and nothing happens,” Santos lamented.

The US has enough problems in the world, we certainly don’t need to needlessly cause problems with Chavez, who up until this point has merely been a pain. But, this clearly puts him in the “with the terrorists” category of nations.