President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may make much of the recent revocations of Executive Order No. 464, which barred cabinet-level officials and top-ranking military officers from testifying in congressional investigations in aid of legislation without clearance from the President; and its implementing guidelines contained in Memorandum Circular No. 108. The President may claim this as a step forward in the search for truth, especially on the controversial National Broadband Network (NBN) deal. But people are in doubt on whether it will finally yield the whole truth – as even without EO 464 and MC 108, Malacañang and its cohorts can find a hundred ways and more to keep muzzling its officials.

BY FLON FAURILLO
Bulatlat
Vol. VIII, No. 6, March 9-15, 2008

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