However, the daughter of the former defense minister said she supported Uribe.
"We are not going to question the president," Lina Echeverri told reporters. "We support him and the military forces."
Colombia's military commander, General Jorge Enrique Mora, vowed Tuesday to push ahead with more rescue operations.
"We will continue doing them because it is our constitutional responsibility to bring home, all the Colombians that these bandits have kidnapped," Mora said.
The FARC are holding hostage dozens of soldiers and police, former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, several politicians and three Americans captured when their plane went down in rebel territory in February.
The US Embassy in Bogota declined to comment on the rescue operation. Washington is providing the Colombian military with intelligence assistance as well as helicopters and other military hardware, and US Special Forces are in Colombia training troops in counterinsurgency tactics.
The rebels want to exchange the hostages, some of whom have spent years in captivity, for guerrillas in government jails.
The rebels are also holding hundreds of ordinary Colombians for ransom, but they are not part of the rebels' proposed swap.
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