Senator
Antonio Trillanes IV should be reminded that he was elected
to craft laws and not to turn his office into an intelligence agency
employing spies.
Put
on the defensive over reports that he has allotted millions of pesos of his
office’s funds to hire his former colleagues in the Magdalo group as
consultants, Trillanes all but admitted that they are sleuthing for him.
According
to a veteran defense reporter who now heads the Manila bureau of a major wire
agency, “as a former naval officer and coup plotter, it sends a chilling effect
that he (Trillanes) uses ‘consultants to’ to spy on certain individuals.”
“He
was elected to make laws and not gather dossiers on people not in his friends
list. Maybe he should be in the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency.”
Here’s
what Trillanes said which raised the eyebrows of many mediamen.
“Here,
our idea of consultant is always high. That's not always the case. That's
clear, what kind of job are we gonna give them in relation to our job here.
“So
that's it, he will just stand there and tell us what time Attorney (Rico)
Quicho leaves, what's his car, where does he pass.... they can't understand
this because they had never done things like this."
Still,
while spies go by their code of silence, Trillanes seems to be too chatty to
fancy himself a spymaster.-End-
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