Credibility: The only factor EDITORIAL 09/18/2010

Credibility: The only factor

EDITORIAL

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09/18/2010
It probably would have been best if the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) and the Hong Kong Government would have formed a joint probe on the hostage taking crisis, in order to stave off any probability of a different analysis.

Still and all, since this was not the case, what will be relied on — at least in this country, would be the IIRC report, which its head, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said, is credible.

Perhaps. But what may be credible to her and her team, may not be credible and even acceptable to some — especially those 10 who are said to have been implicated in the botched hostage rescue operations and who are expected to be meted out sanctions.

An even more ticklish issue is whether the report will be including the absence of presidential leadership during the hostage crisis, because certainly, the reason for the fiasco was the total absence of leadership and direction from the Palace.

No matter what is being claimed by Noynoy Aquino, as his explanation of his invisibility and inaccessibility during the hostage crisis went in his live panel interview, it was that vacuum of Palace leadership that had a lot to do with the way the hostage crisis was mishandled..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100918com1.html