Archive for December, 2005

December 13, 2005 · Posted in: In the News, Science and Technology

Wiretap central

SOON after the elections in May 2004, Military Intelligence Group (MIG) 21, the signal intelligence unit of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines or ISAFP, got the order to tap a certain phone number. The request was not...

FORMER elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano appeared for the second time today before the House inquiry into the controversial "Hello, Garci" recordings.  His testimony in audio files: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |...

December 13, 2005 · Posted in: Congress Watch, In the News

‘Pinocchio’ in the House

THROWING tact to the winds and making it clear they were not going to treat him with kid gloves, opposition congressmen took turns trying to pin down former election official Virgilio Garcillano for his role in alleged electoral fraud. Garcillano stuck...

WEARING pins stamped with the fairy tale character Pinocchio, whose nose grew everytime he told a lie, opposition congressmen put former elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano through a relentless inquisition at a hearing today, pinning him down on...

MALACAÑANG is standing pat on President Arroyo’s “management prerogative” to reassign education undersecretary for finance Juan Miguel Luz to the Department of Labor and Employment. Commenting on the appeal Luz filed...

NOTWITHSTANDING the happy news of the passage on third reading of the Senate version of the juvenile justice bill, children's rights advocates are not letting Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo get away easily on her apparent inaction on the issue of child...

LOST in last week's hoopla generated by the appearance of former elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano at the resumption of congressional hearings at the House of Representatives on the "Hello, Garci" tapes is this piece of good news...