Open season
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
If last Monday’s hearing on the PNP chopper deal is any indication, it’s open season at the Senate. And it’s ugly. The way Senators Ping Lacson and Teofisto Guingona boorishly coerced Rowena del Rosario, the former bookkeeper of LTA Inc. and Negros Occidental Rep. Iggy Arroyo, you’d think they are into hazing and not a congressional inquiry in aid of legislation. What legislation are they contemplating anyway to let them bear hard on Del Rosario to the point of detaining her at the upper chamber for “evasiveness” and “telling lies?” Only the duo can tell.
In any event, since when did answering the gentlemen’s questions properly if not straight forwardly amount to evasion? It may be true, as they claimed, that Del Rosario was not being straightforward since she did not answer things to their satisfaction but that does not qualify for evasiveness. Or even untruthfulness. She answered the questions didn’t she? Was she supposed to know what the gentlemen had in mind and repeat the same under oath in order to evade their wrath? I don’t think that kind of fate should befall any resource person. Even if that person is one the gentlemen have somewhat condemned as less-than-truthful for being the assistant of someone they find contemptible in the first place? That’s guilt-by-association and the last I heard there was nothing in the statutes to qualify that as a crime, especially in a congressional inquiry not a court of law..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110824com4.html
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