Fear of being found out
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Yet another lame excuse is being given by Noynoy in rejecting the passage of the Freedom of Information (FoI) bill that has been agreed upon by the Senate and House leaders as a prioritized bill they will work on.
The latest excuse of Noynoy is that an FoI law may be misused and abused, since there are persons who ask for information but do not use it for its proper purpose, even warning of the possibility of widespread panic caused, he said, by the improper use of the information obtained.
Widespread panic? From what quarter, the Aquino administration?
As he was quoted: “A freedom of information act sounds so good and noble but at the same time, first of all, you’ll notice that here in this country there’s a tendency in getting information and not really utilizing it for the proper purposes. What’s his basis for saying this? Just who has been utilizing information that is being denied access anyway by Malacañang for Noynoy to claim this “tendency?”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111001com2.html
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