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tion."
The statements "undeniably tended, as it
actually did, to disturb and obstruct the
President in executing the functions of her
Office," Velasco said. "It is totally unfair
for Attorney Ong to blame the President a-
lone for the poverty and corruption in the
country," he added.
The justice Department said Ong's actua-
tions clearly show that he is in complicity
with other people who want to incite the
people to rise up against the President "by
misleading them into believing that the Pre-
sident alone should be held responsible for
the country's poverty and corruption."
Ong, a former deputy director for intel-
ligence of the NBI, surfaced last June 10
to announce that he had the original tapes
used to record the conversation between the
chief executive and a certain "Gary" on an
alleged plan to rig the 2004 presidential
polls and then sought sanctuary at the San
Carlos Seminary.
He said the tapes were given to him by
his contacts from the Intelligence Service
of the Armed Forces of the Philippines(ISAFP)
Rear Admiral Tirso Danga, military deputy
chief for intelligence, denied the ISAFP had
conducted wiretapping operations against any-
one.
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ted by her "tacit agreement" to the information of fraud fed to
her by a former Commision on Elections official.
Paguia withstood the grilling of at least 20 congressmen who
failed to bresk the suspended lawyer into disclosing the iden-
tity of th source of the three-hour audio tapes.
At least 98 lawmakers volunteered to question Paguia. Each was
given 3 minutes to throw is questions.
But before everybody could have his turn to question Paguia,
Sorsogon Rep. Jose Solis moved to play the tapes the lawyer turned
over to the joint panel.
Actually, Solis merely agreed to have the tapes played in ex-
change for his original motion to compel Paguia to disclose the
source of the audio recordings.
The second Solis motion overruled a previous decision to play
all the tapes only after the interpellation of Paguia has been
terminated.
A number of opposition congressmen waived their right to throw
questions to Paguia to hasten the proceedings and immediately give
way to the playing of the tapes.
Aside from Paguia, Wycoco and Sgt. Vidal Doble of the Intelli-
gence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines were present
during the hearings. Both were unable to take the witness stand.
Ong again snubed the proceedings. In a letter sent of Speaker
Jose de Venecia, Adaza, Ong's lawyer said, his client's "life is
still in extreme danger," thus, he could not personally attend the
hearing.
However, Adaza turned over to the joint committee the "mother of
all tapes" that his client was ordered to submit.
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