THERE has to be at least one of them telling the truth. While JDV III claims that Neri told him about his conversation with the President regarding the so-called offer of Chairman Abalos in order to have the NBN project approved, Neri counters with a completely opposite stance, saying that what JDV III claims is completely untrue. So now, it is left to us: who is telling the truth?
Better yet, what is the truth? This question seems to always escape the minds of many whistleblowers as well as witnesses, left and right. It is like a neverending cycle of a thesis and an antithesis. Whistle blowers tend to claim that they are the ones telling the truth. Does that mean that those people who are supposedly guilty of the accusation are kings and queens of denial?
One can see how easy it is to just say what you want to say and when you want to say it. In any case, the only way for the Senate to make its hearings of the NBN scandal worth one’s time and effort is if the people who are involved in the procedings (i.e. witnesses, whistleblowers, interrogators) truly have one thing in mind: to tell the truth by first stating what is really the truth!
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October 26th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
it has come to the point, where anybody telling a crime done by pgma is the one telling the truth and the one covering his ass is a big fat liar! so who’s fault is it? ask pgma .
October 26th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Well, if we read Jarius Bondoc’s continuing expose regarding the NBN project in his column, then, it is JDV III who is lying. He wrote that Neri confided to him that he informed the president of Abalos’ 200 million bribe to which GMA retorted do not accept the bribe offer but approve the project anyway.
Recalling JDV III’s first Senate appearance, he said that he has no knowledge of the President being involved in the transaction. Why the sudden change in the testimony?
It is very easy to make a spin out of Neri’s statement and JDV III is really taking advantage of the controversy given that a large segment of the population is critical of the administration. He has to drag GMA to save his father’s position. A drowning person will clutch at everything to save himself. Never mind who gets hurt in the process.