Palace vip si Napoles! "No matter how the Palace spinners spin it, Napoles has always been a Palace favorite. This was why the businesswoman’s letter to Aquino last April, complaining about the National Bureau of Investigation’s alleged harassment of her brother Benjamin Lim, was so urgently acted upon by the President." "That letter, which has supposedly gone missing, gave everyone an inkling of how close Napoles was to Aquino. And it bothers me that no one seems to have pursued the Aquino-Napoles relationship angle in the long-running story." "(To this day, I don’t understand why no one has asked Aquino—or Abad or Drilon, for that matter—directly if he personally knows Napoles. Surely, there must be at least one reporter who can gather up the courage to ask such an important question.)" "Napoles’ letter to Aquino was what triggered the entire scandal, because it led to a series of official actions which began with the President directing Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to investigate the NBI agents identified by Napoles as those shaking down her brother. De Lima reportedly told NBI Director Nonnatus Rojas to look into the matter." "Rojas supposedly confronted his agents and told them that the President himself had expressed an interest in Lim’s case. The agents, fearing that they might lose their jobs because they thought, rightly or wrongly, that the President was on the side of Napoles and her brother, ran to a newspaper executive, who broke the story in her newspaper, through an aide of hers who got the “byline” credit." "That was then; the Napoles surrender is “now.” And this latest episode still reinforces the belief that Napoles is such a big shot in this administration, for reasons that no official has sufficiently explained."
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:17:21 +0000
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