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Lessons from hearings C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/07/2011

Monday, March 7, 2011

Lessons from hearings

C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S
Jonathan De la Cruz
03/07/2011
Quite apart from the more tempered exchanges after that tragic suicide of former AFP Chief and Defense Secretary Angie Reyes, the Senate inquiry into the plea bargain agreement between retired Gen. Carlos Garcia and the Office of the Ombudsman which spilled over into the use of military funds almost a decade ago brought about a number of lessons. For one, it showed the difficulties confronting the military’s fund managers who have to work out the needs of an Armed Forces at war on several fronts, as it were, within a general budgeting and auditing system geared for civilian work at peace time. The ways and practices of such offices as the Ombudsman and the judiciary as well as the biases and foibles of the office holders were also laid open for the public to see, critique and be perplexed with. Then, there was the legal conundrum accompanying high profile hearings which proved instructive, entertaining and maddening. Imagine having to ferret out the truth amid a babel of conflicting data and assertions from all kinds of parties leading to the sad spectacle of “dirt digging” and finger pointing between and among persons and groups including some who waded into past acts which have yet to find closure. These hearings can be a boon to the kibitzers but a bane to the truth seekers. But there were unexpected blessings which ultimately lingered..... MORE

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