{"id":43270,"date":"2019-01-28T20:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43270"},"modified":"2019-01-28T20:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T01:06:45","slug":"5000-troops-to-colombia-to-quell-venezuela-crisis-john-bolton-flashes-notepad-contents-at-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43270","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;5,000 Troops To Colombia&#8221; To Quell Venezuela Crisis? John Bolton Flashes Notepad Contents At Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-01-28\/5000-troops-colombia-quell-venezuela-crisis-john-bolton-flashes-notepad-contents\">&#8220;5,000 Troops To Colombia&#8221; To Quell Venezuela Crisis? John Bolton Flashes Notepad Contents At Briefing<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>During a Monday White House press briefing national security adviser John Bolton was photographed carrying a notepad&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>presumably as he was&nbsp;fresh out of a national security meeting&nbsp;<em>\u2014<\/em>&nbsp;and one of the things which appears to be handwritten on the pad is&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;5,000 troops to Colombia&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contents of the notepad were&nbsp;spotted almost immediately by multiple journalists online after an NBC news release featuring the AP photo was published.&nbsp;More precisely the full contents appear to read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Afghanistan -&gt; Welcome the Talks. 5,000 troops to Colombia.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"3\" height=\"8\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the image of Bolton with his notepad from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/bolton-all-options-are-table-trump-venezuela-n963681\">NBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Bolton%20press%20briefing.jpg?itok=iIbT__LY\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Bolton%20press%20briefing.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>National Security Advisor John Bolton inadvertently flashing his notepad contents fresh out of a national security meeting, via the AP.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And a closer look, per one of the first journalists to examine the photograph and writing, who noted that\u00a0<strong>&#8220;if confirmed this would be a pretty terrible OPSEC [operations security] breach&#8221;<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DyB6C3pXgAEaFEv?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaoKomar747\/status\/1090005450492465152\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DyB6DwaW0AA4AYG?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaoKomar747\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1024716230173884423\/bpoJejCH_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaoKomar747\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaoKomar747\/status\/1090005450492465152\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this notepad that National Security Advisor John Bolton was holding today at the White House briefing on Venezuela says:<br><br>&#8220;Afghanistan -> Welcome the Talks. 5,000 troops to Colombia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If confirmed this would be a pretty terrible OPSEC breach.<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KS0Issfvps\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/bolton-all-options-are-table-trump-venezuela-n963681\u00a0\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolton during the White House presser revealed that President Trump is &#8220;leaving open&nbsp;<strong>the possibility of a U.S. military intervention<\/strong>&nbsp;to protect opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3, members of the nation&#8217;s assembly and American diplomatic personnel,&#8221; according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/bolton-all-options-are-table-trump-venezuela-n963681\">NBC<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The president has made it clear that all options are on the table,&#8221; Bolton told reporters while holding the yellow notepad.&nbsp;&#8220;We also today call on the Venezuelan military and security forces to accept the peaceful, democratic and constitutional transfer of power,&#8221; Bolton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But could, as the notepad suggests,&nbsp;<strong>this involve plans to send 5,000 American troops to neighboring Columbia, a close US ally in Latin America?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;5,000 Troops To Colombia&#8221; To Quell Venezuela Crisis? 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