Was Pichay in contact with Garcillano during all the time the House was looking for the ex-Comelec official, Tatad had asked. If Pichay was in contact with Garcillano, what would be Pichay’s official accountability to the House for having withheld valuable information from his fellow congressmen? Does this not raise ethical and disciplinary issues, which could affect Pichay’s continued membership in the House?
I am afraid that, by raising those questions, Tatad overestimated the congressmen’s sensitivity to issues of ethics and discipline. Do they care at all?
Seems like pichay is committing obstruction of justice to me. LOL.
From the PCIJ:
IN the past two days, former elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano has appeared on television and newspapers wearing different headgear — first a checkered scarf normally worn by Moros and Mindanao indigenous peoples, and later, a batik cap. The subliminal message of these fashion statements is this: after months of hiding among "trusted Muslim friends" in Mindanao, Garci has gone native. He has stayed in the hinterlands for so long that he has even taken to lounging in the local attire.
The headgear is only one of many signs that indicate a savvy PR hand is behind the sudden reappearance in the public scene of the elections official who dropped out of sight six months ago...
Sounds like Direk Lupita Kashiwahara's handiwork here.
From Malaya: Who do you trust, Garci of Singapore?
Tinatanong pa ba yan?
Former elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano cannot claim he never left the country because his entry to Singapore last July, a month after the ‘Hello Garci’ scandal broke out, was documented by authorities from that city-state, a Filipino diplomat said yesterday.
"He is lying. He cannot claim that he did not leave the country. Gagawin niya pang sinungaling ang Singapore," the diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
Garcillano, accused of perpetrating cheating in the May 2004 elections to ensure President Arroyo’s victory, went missing days after Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye on June 6 made public the existence of the "Hello Garci" wiretapped conversations between him and Arroyo. He reportedly returned more than a week ago.
He was quoted in reports as saying he never left the country.
The diplomat said the Singapore foreign ministry confirmed through a note verbale sent to the Philippine Embassy that Garcillano arrived in Singapore on July 14 and left the following day.
Based on the note verbale, the Embassy sent an official report to the Department of Foreign Affairs, which the home office relayed to the five House committees investigating the "Hello Garci" tapes.
"The DFA will stand by the information. Hindi puwedeng bawiin yun. It was fully documented," the diplomat said.
More from Neal Cruz on Garci's BS.
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