Melo Report to be Released
Some backtracking on the Administration’s end that they had intended all along, as early as this past Tuesday, to release the Melo Report, and that they do not know why there have been reports otherwise.
MANILA, Philippines — The European Union and the United Nations’ special rapporteur may expect to receive on Monday copies of the Melo Commission’s report on the extrajudicial killings, National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said yesterday.
Gonzales said in an interview that President Macapagal-Arroyo gave him the go-signal on Tuesday to transmit copies of the “thick document” requested by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, and UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston.
Asked what took him so long to implement the President’s directive, Gonzales said he had to make “some transmittals” to the offices of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita and Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye.
“But I was asked by the President to make the decision as early as Tuesday,” he said.
Gonzales wondered why critics of the President had accused Malacañang of hiding the report: “I don’t know why this issue came out.”
Maybe because you said it wouldn’t be released until the report was complete! Trying to make idiots of the media, this guy is really getting on my nerves!
“It’s a preliminary report only. That’s why we said that we will release it when [it] is already complete,”
So why release it now? Perhaps, because of pressure from all corners of The Philippines (as well as the rest of the world)?
You cannot have it both ways, you can’t say that you’re not going to release it, then come back and say otherwise…. This is political double talk, and sorry Arroyo Administration, we’re not as stupid as the candidates that you are fielding this upcoming May Elections.
And why the delay? because of a transmittal? What kind of transmittal? Maybe a transmittal of a good excuse to get out of this Public Relations mess… hmmmm?
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