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Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Executive privilege
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ADIVIDED Supreme Court is of two
minds about executive privilege but the majority has upheld the
accepted fundamentals. The ruling broke no new ground but it spelled
out in clearer terms the limits of congressional inquiry. It was a
reassurance to the President and the members of the Cabinet that
executive privilege, as defined by the Court, enjoys protection of
the law.
Voting 9-6, the Supreme Court
granted a petition of Romulo Neri, the acting chairman of the
Commission on Higher Education, to invoke executive privilege on his
conversation with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on the
short-lived $329-billion national broadband network with China’s
ZTE Corp.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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EAST
WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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A balanced view of
executive privilege
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THE Supreme Court—with nine justices voting in
favor and six against—ruled that Mr. Romulo Neri validly invoked
executive privilege in the Senate hearings called to investigate the
ZTE-NBN project. In my view,...
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Dreams and reality
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I CONTINUE to follow intently the Obama-Clinton wars.
Aside from contentious issues of race and gender, the heart of the
matter, is the clash between believing in the dream or vision that
Obama is painting...
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FROM
THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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The new labor
secretary
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LAST week, in anticipation of Labor Secretary Arturo
Brion’s appointment to the Supreme Court, I wrote down five names
of potential candidates to replace him.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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The food crisis
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THERE is no rice shortage. There is a food shortage.
In fact, there will be shortages of almost every commodity on earth.
Rice, corn, wheat, oil, metals, minerals, and, yes, water.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Hope and faith
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AT the end of November last year, Pope Benedict XVI
issued an encyclical discussing the philosophical and theological
aspects of the virtue of Hope. One would almost think,...
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ANALYSIS
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The Dalai Lama’s
‘remarkable restraint’
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BEIJING: After violence erupted in Lhasa and other
Tibetan towns in China, the Dalai Lama, who has called himself an
“innocent monk,” repeatedly called on for “non-violence” and
“dialogue” with the Chinese government...
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LETTER
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THE recently concluded 12th presidential election of
the Republic of China is the fourth directly elected by the people.
It was a long, hotly contested campaign but the election finally
ended in a smooth...
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