A conspiracy to KILL the Napoles case in media,
and before the public eye, is fast shaping up.
Justice Sec. Leila de Lima refused to allow
the pork barrel scam whistleblowers to testify in a Senate hearing this morning,
saying she will seek the opinion of the Office of the Ombudsman first before
she allows the whistleblowers to testify again.
Like Senate President Franklin Drilon who had
refused to approve a subpoena for Janet Napoles, De Lima cited the Ombudsman’s
rules on publicity as basis for her refusal.
Ombudsman
Conchita Carpio Morales now has ABSOLUTE CONTROL on Napoles and the
whistleblowers, and whatever updates will there be on the case, if any.
So
if Morales refuses to allow Napoles and the whistleblowers to testify in the
Senate, or be interviewed anywhere else, then COMPLETE SILENCE will fall on all
both sides.
FOR
AS LONG as Morales wants to. Anybody correct me if I’m wrong but neither can anybody force Morales to give regular updates on Napoles and the plunder case she’s facing for the scam.
If there will be nothing new, then media will have nothing to report on or come out with.
Napoles will VANISH before the PUBLIC EYE. The possibility that the public interest in Napoles and her alleged role in the pork barrel scam will diminish will DRAMATICALLY INCREASE.
For
those who missed it, I cited these points in my preceding blog on Sen.
Drilon:
The Ombudsman
probe is for alleged illegal acts related to the scam. The Senate investigation
is in aid of legislation. Anyway you look at it, these are TWO ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT PURPOSES.
So why must a
THOROUGH and TOTALLY COMPREHENSIVE (hopefully) Senate probe be DEPENDENT on the
Ombudsman?
Especially
considering the fact that the Ombudsman WILL NOT DECIDE on the plunder case
against Napoles BASED ON WHAT will be declared in a Senate hearing.
But on the
evidence submitted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
Let me add that
like what we have all seen, De Lima has never objected to the left and right
interviews given \by the whistleblowers to newspapers and radio/ and TV
stations.
The Ombudsman is
NOT a court of law, and De Lima is NOT the Ombudsman either,.
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