Non-transparency intentional: Through the looking glass darkly

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, Rodrigo Duterte is shying away from challenges of Sen. Grace Poe and Vice President Jejomar Binay to sign a waiver that would authorize the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to open his bank accounts.

Duterte, the mayor of Davao City and a presidential candidate in the May 9 elections like Poe and Binay, could have taken up his two rivals on their demand and be done with it but he just could not let the AMLC pry into his accounts because one of which with a branch of the Bank of the Philippine Islands in Metro Manila contains an apparently undeclared