Truth body should start with ‘Hello Garci,’ says solon By Angie M. Rosales 08/21/2010

Truth body should start with ‘Hello Garci,’ says solon

By Angie M. Rosales 08/21/2010 The Truth Commission should start with the reopening of the “Hello Garci” tapes scandal, being what Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano dubbed the “original sin” of alleged massive graft and corruption committed by the previous administration. “The original sin is ‘Hello Garci’. The ‘Hello Garci’ (scandal) started it all and from here, we went into a period in time wherein graft and corruption was the rule rather than the exception. “So when you don’t deal with the original sin, you will go to the root of the problem which is the money that the politician spent during the elections and cheating during the elections. “My view, what the Senate started, should (be) finished,” Cayetano told reporters in an interview. The senator’s call to revive the probe on the alleged wiretapped conversations believed to have been, among others, former President Gloria Arroyo and former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano Jr. during the 2004 presidential polls, in the light of the controversy concerning the purported demotion of Rear Adm. Feliciano Angue..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100821nat1.html

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