Bum advice FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/18/2010

Bum advice

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/18/2010 Noynoy Aquino will have a military problem in his hands if he keeps on interfering in the judicial and congressional processes just to get detained Sen. Sonny Trillanes released from detention merely to ensure an additional vote for his Liberal Party (LP) bet for the Senate, Kiko Pangilinan. A member of his communications team, Sonny Coloma, was quick to deny that Noynoy was interfering in the judiciary, as well as denying Noynoy’s statement that Trillanes has been unjustly charged for a coup d’etat was done to get him to vote for Pangilinan. Noynoy, it was said, was exercising his authority within his province, when he asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) to review the case of Trillanes. But everyone knows that the DoJ will do exactly what Noynoy wants, which is to throw out the case by saying there was no probable cause for the crime of coup d’etat. The DoJ may have a new secretary of Justice, but that does not translate to the DoJ being independent of what the Malacañang tenant wants done, with the results of the review adhering to what he had already prejudged, which is that Trillanes was unjustly charged of the crime..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100718com2.html

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