Palace spin doctors divisive

POLICE officials on Friday decried what they described as an effort to sow intrigue between the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and use it as a smokescreen in the crisis that the Aquino administration is facing as a result of the massacre of the 44 Special Action Force (SAF) commandos.

“Parang pinagsasabong ang PNP at AFP para mapagtakpan at ma-divert sa amin ang issue. Ano yan, divide-and-conquer [It is like the PNP and the AFP are being made to fight in a cockpit to cover up w hat happened to the elite police forces and divert attention to the massacre issue to us. What is that, a divide-and-conquer tactic]?” a ranking PNP official told The Manila Times.