Officials, mediamen, 3 TV networks named
Noy won’t act on report; lawyers to study findings
By Aytch S. dela Cruz
09/21/2010
Probability is high that President Aquino may not entirely uphold the recommendations presented to him by the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) which he had tasked to probe the botched hostage rescue operations when a sacked police officer seized a tourist bus and killed eight foreigners last Aug. 23.
Aquino said he has ordered his Chief Presidential
Legal Counsil Eduardo de Mesa and Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. to conduct a thorough review on the IIRC’s list of individuals and institutions it has found culpable in the police’s bungling of the crisis operations.
“It’s possible that I may subscribe to the entirety; I may add to the recommendations; I may diminish some of the actions. I repeat those are all recommendations — recommendatory. I will have to go into the details to explain that. But, again, the bottom line is, let us find the appropriate cases — be it criminal or administrative —supported by the facts and even if they’re winnable,” Aquino explained in a short press conference he held in Malacañang hours prior to his departure for the United States yesterday.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100921hed1.html
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