Archive for the ‘Hello Garci scandal’ Category

Si Abalos ang konek sa “Hello Garci” at NBN/ZTE

Pangalawang kaso ng graft laban kay dating Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos kaugnay sa ma-anomalyang NBN/ZTE ang isinampa sa kanyan ng Ombudsman kasama si Gloria Arroyo. Una ay yung isinampa ng Akbayan noong 2007. Paglabag din ng Republic Act 3019, ang Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. Hindi isinama ng Ombudsman na si Merceditas Gutierrez noon si [...]

January 3, 2012  Tags:   Posted in: Abante, Hello Garci scandal, NBN/ZTE  36 Comments

‘We switched ERs for Gloria Arroyo’

First of a series PNP team admits breaking into Batasan building By Nancy C. Carvajal Philippine Daily Inquirer A police officer and his “boys” have come forward saying they stole original election returns (ERs) then kept at the Batasang Pambansa building and replaced these with fake ones to make sure Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would still emerge [...]

July 29, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: 2004 elections, Gloria Arroyo and family, Hello Garci scandal  62 Comments

May mga kakampi ngayon ni Pnoy na maaring matamaan kapag hinalungkat ang dayaan sa 2004 na eleksyun

Natutuwa ako na nabuhay ang “Hello Garci” at ang dayaan ng 2004 na eleksyun. Sana, sa wakas, malalaman natin ang buong katotohanan. Natatawa rin ako dahil sa paglabas ng mga recycled na mga artikulo at mga impormasyun na nilabas nitong mga nakaraang anim na taon ay akala ng marami ay bago. Katulad na lang ng [...]

July 24, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: 2004 elections, Abante, Gloria Arroyo and family, Hello Garci scandal  87 Comments

Take two from Clinton John Colcol

In July 2006, Artemio Rasalan, a self-confessed election operator and Clinton John Colcol, a Maguindanao municipal government employee, at great risk to their lives, came out with a signed affidavits and video confessions about their role in tampering with the 2004 election results in favor of Gloria Arroyo. Media carried their revelations.Malacañang, then under the [...]

July 21, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2004 elections, Gloria Arroyo and family, Hello Garci scandal  48 Comments

After “Hello” from Bedol, will it be “Hello Garci”?

It was so ludicrous that you would think it was a Michael V skit. Yesterday, at the start of the media presentation of Lintang Bedol at the Commission on Elections in Intramuros, Manila, Chairman Sixto Brillantes told the magician election supervisor of Maguindanao, ” O baka gusto mo mag-hello.” Bedol, wearing dark glasses and a [...]

July 19, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: 2004 elections, Election 2007, Gloria Arroyo and family, Hello Garci scandal, Malaya  91 Comments

Zaldy and Bedol under WPP: a stinking package deal

Surely, Justice Secretary Lilia de Lima knows the ramifications of her willingness to consider Zaldy Ampatuan, former governor of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao and one of the 196 persons accused in connection with the Maguindanao massacre, as state witness in a possible election fraud case against Gloria Arroyo. “That is a new case, [...]

July 17, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: 2004 elections, Election 2007, Gloria Arroyo and family, Hello Garci scandal, Maguindanao massacre  17 Comments

Malalim ang drama ni Zaldy Ampatuan at Bedol

Sa unang pahayag ni dating Maguindanao election supervisor Lintang Bedol tungkol sa dayaan noong 2004 at 2007 na eleksyun, bistado na kaagad ang mali ng kanyang mga detalye. Maaring may totoo doon sa sinabi niya, ngunit mukhang hindi tama ang pagsama niya kay Comelec Commissioner Rene Sarmiento doon saan biyahe sa Gen. Santos City para [...]

July 16, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: 2004 elections, Election 2007, Gloria Arroyo and family, Hello Garci scandal  11 Comments

Legalizing the illegal

This is what is disturbing about the Supreme Court decision allowing Gloria Arroyo to make a midnight appointment to succeed Chief Justice Reynato Puno: Arroyo can do anything illegal to stay in power beyond June 2010 and the Supreme Court will give it a mantle of legality. Photo by Mario Ignacio for VERA Files This [...]

March 18, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Cha-Cha, Gloria Arroyo and family, Hello Garci scandal, Military, Philippine National Police  76 Comments

Nakakabahalang kalakaran sa Comelec

Makalintal: Padaca victim of Comelec clique Matindi itong si Comelec Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer. Si Ferrer and presiding commissioner ng second division ng Comelec.Noong Lunes, sa isang nakakagulat na desisyon, idineklara nina Ferrer na si Benjamin Dy, kandidato ng Lakas- Kampi, raw ang nanalo laban kay Grace Padaca (Liberal Party) sa 2007 na eleksyun para gubernador [...]

December 9, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Hello Garci scandal  50 Comments

Prosecution witness favors defendants

Former Flag-officer-in-command Mateo Mayuga was the only witness presented by the prosecution yesterday in the mutiny case against 28 officers implicated in the alleged plan to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo in February 2006. Mayuga’s testimony however favored the defendants. Mayuga, who is more known for the “Mayuga report”- an investigation of the participation of [...]

July 17, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Feb '06, Foreign Affairs, Hello Garci scandal, Military, NBN/ZTE  28 Comments