Getting away with it EDITORIAL 06/15/2010

Getting away with it

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 06/15/2010 Will Gloria Arroyo, her spouse and a multitude of her Cabinet secretaries be facing charges once President-elect Noynoy Aquino is sworn into high office? Maybe. But then again, maybe not — especially if some kind of deal has been cooked up between good ole USA and the new dispensation, which really isn’t far-fetched at all. Naturally, there will be a commission formed, as this was the promise of Aquino, but there is serious doubt that the inquiry would get very far, first because very few, if at all, incriminating documents would be found as evidence. Gloria and her boys are hardly the types that would leave incriminating documents behind. Second, not one of the Gloria boys will be willing to talk and implicate themselves in the crime. Chances are very high that whatever incriminating evidence there is, by way of documents, already has been fed to the shredder. In fact, long before the elections were scheduled, some of the NBN-ZTE documents were claimed by an official to be have been “lost.” Truth is, what Noynoy’s mother could do by way of charging Marcos and his family members in 1986, Noynoy can’t do, in the case of Gloria Arroyo.... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100615com1.html

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