After leak, Palace to alter, delay report again
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 10/08/2010With the Palace reviewed report of the Aug. 23 botched hostage crisis having been leaked to a newspaper that quoted from it liberally yesterday, which stated that the Palace report had absolved Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Rico Puno, Manila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno, and former Philippine National Police Chief Jesus Verzosa from any administrative and criminal liability, Malacañang yesterday said the report will be delayed once more, as more individuals would be held liable.
The Palace’s reviewed report on the botched hostage rescue which saw eight Hong Kong tourists dead has been altered radically from the Incident Investigation and Review Committee’s report and recommendations, with virtually all indicted by the IIRC in its report getting off with a limp slap on the wrist by Malacañang.
Changes are to be expected as the government officially releases the entire contents of the report to the public alongside the evaluation made by the Palace legal team on Monday, a Palace lawyer said.
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Eduardo de Mesa told reporters yesterday that among those changes is the additional list of persons they have recommended to be charged for the mismanagement of the hostage crisis that transpired last Aug. 23..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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