OUR July 21, 2015 column on the anomalous chopper deal, which implicated Department of National Defense (DND) secretary Voltaire Gazmin, elicited a long-winded press release from the Public Information Office (PIO) of the Philippine Air Force (PAF).

Of course, we find it a bit odd that the PAF is now acting as the spokesman for Gazmin when the Huey purchase was a DND project in the first place. Maybe, the PAF’s commanding general, Jeffrey Delgado, has insider information on DND’s Huey contract that he’d be willing to share with Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, if and when she begins her overdue inquiry into the anomalous deal.

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