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No U.S. government involvement in Venezuela drone blast: Bolton

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From Reuters

No U.S. government involvement in Venezuela drone blast: Bolton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior White House official on Sunday denied the United States was behind a drone blast on Saturday during a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was speaking.

“I can say unequivocally there is no U.S. government involvement in this at all,” said John Bolton, national security adviser to the White House, told “Fox News Sunday” in an interview.

Bolton suggested that the Maduro government could be behind the explosion, citing widespread corruption and oppression in Venezuela.

“It could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the Maduro regime itself to something else,” Bolton said, adding that there were no Americans injured in the blast.

COMMENT:-

I suspect that this article is well up in the running for "Non-news Story of the Year".

If the US government WAS NOT involved, the US government would say that it was not involved.

If the US government WAS involved, the US government would say that it was not involved.

What WOULD be news is if Mr. Boulton were to announce something like

"Mr. Trump is deply distressed that the assassination of Sr. Maduro that he had ordered and which agencies of the US government had attempted was a failure. The US government will keep on trying until it does manage to kill Sr. Maduro and he is replaced by someone who will do what Mr. Trump tells him to do.".

That, of course, isn't going to happen.

Besides "The dog did it.".
 
You would think if the US was involved we would be slightly more clever than a small drone with a bomb (that all failed) in a public setting with such a large audience.

Besides, don't we have bigger fish to fry?
 
You would think if the US was involved we would be slightly more clever than a small drone with a bomb (that all failed) in a public setting with such a large audience.

Besides, don't we have bigger fish to fry?

Big Brother has no small enemies.
 
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