MR. MCCORMACK: Yeah, I saw the article and there’s been a lot of reporting about this and I think we’ve talked a little bit about it, even over the past months. And clearly, if there are such ties, that should be of deep concern to the region as well as the international system. I will leave it to the Colombian Government to talk at the moment in any more depth about what they have learned through their analysis of the contents of the laptop and other information that they may have gleaned. They were – I know that they were working quite closely with Interpol to make sure that they were confident in the provenance of the information that they were looking at and how that fit together with all their various other sources of information they have.

So I'm sure, at a certain point, we'll all be talking a lot more about this. But I think it's really only appropriate to allow the Colombian Government, at this point in time, to go into any more depth about the issue if they choose to do so.

QUESTION: Will the Secretary continue to support the trade agreement with Colombia in the meantime?

MR. MCCORMACK: Absolutely.

QUESTION: Until the authenticity of the files are --

MR. MCCORMACK: Absolutely. Again, I -- and when I was talking about the provenance, the validity, and -- being able to confirm the provenance of the file, I don't think anybody -- I haven't heard one word uttered questioning it at this point. It's just that when you're going through and doing a careful analysis, you want to make sure you know what you know and you know where it came from. But I haven't heard any discussion that -- in any way that there was anything suspicious about the provenance of the files, I guess is the way to put it.

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QUESTION: To follow on the Venezuela question, actually. Those files in the laptop were passed onto the U.S. for their own analysis. Has there been any conclusion in that? Do you have any sort of --

MR. MCCORMACK: I'm not going to -- I'm not going to get out ahead of the Colombia Government.