Palace assures no whitewash of IIRC sanctions
By Aytch S. de la Cruz and Gerry Baldo
09/25/2010
Malacañang yesterday assured that the position being taken by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on the recommendations and criminal and administrative sanctions sought against several officials in the executive department as stated in the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) will stand. The Palace yesterday claimed it will be standing by the IIRC recommendations on who should be held liable for the Aug. 23 hostage rescue fiasco but also said that the “review” will be “fair.”
In the same breath, however, Malacañang acknowledges the fact that President Aquino is not 100 percent sold on the recommendations and had expressed some doubts on the IIRC’s report. But Palace aides claimed this is the reason for Aquino’s legal team to conduct a review of the facts.
These were the apparent flip-flopping statements issued by presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda to reporters during his Friday press briefing in relation to the lingering concerns on the Manila bus siege controversy a week after the IIRC handed its report to the President.
De Lima publicly expressed her, and her panel members’ disappointment over the decision of Aquino to have the IIRC report reviewed by Palace lawyers, with Aquino saying that he was not about to simply take the IIRC report and recommendations at face value, as he needs his lawyers to point to him whether these sanctions, if taken, would stand in court, saying
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100925hed3.html
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