De Lima: No plans of probing Noy, DILG chief By Aytch S. de la Cruz and Benjamin B. Pulta 09/01/2010

De Lima: No plans of probing Noy, DILG chief By Aytch S. de la Cruz and Benjamin B. Pulta 09/01/2010 Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has no plans of summoning President Aquino to shed light on the botched hostage rescue operations, even if she claimed that the probe body, created by Aquino himself, will look into the level at which the command responsibility rests for the botched rescue operations which left eight Hong Kong residents dead, with eight injured, and left too, a trail of anger that continues to rage in Hong Kong over the incompetence of the Aquino government that mishandled the incident. But this early, Aquino himself is now tossing the blame in the botched rescue operations on an undersecretary of his. Aquino yesterday disclosed to Palace reporters that he is holding Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersec-retary for Peace and Order Rico Escalona Puno as “partly” responsible for the bungled rescue operations by the police forces in the recent hostage taking incident. This came amid the claim of one of his communications chief that the Aquino government is not into any blame game. Aquino made the disclosure in defense of embattled DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo whose credibility as vice chairman of the recently established Hostage Crisis Investigation Committee (HCIC) that will handle the ongoing probe on the incident is being questioned....MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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