Cover up for Noy’s failure
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
House prosecutors missed their chance to grandstand in an impeachment proceeding, now that Ombudsman Merci Gutierrez has resigned, which may be the reason they are now bitching about her quitting at this time — before the trial was scheduled to begin.
The trial, for some prosecutors, and perhaps even some senator-judges, could mean a Senate seat for some of the prosecutors, just as it was during the impeachment trial of then sitting President Joseph Estrada.
Now, what they keep on saying is that while Merci may no longer be impeached — since the aim of an impeachment is the removal of the accused, the same Merci detractors in the House and even in the Senate now issue the veiled threat of her facing criminal charges, which, if based on what the impeachment charges say, won’t fly in a courtroom.
One of the charges leveled against Merci was that of her taking an inordinately long time in resolving cases, the same charge, incidentally, that was leveled against Deputy Ombudsman Emilio Gonzalez by Noynoy and his Palace boys..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110501com2.html
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