Poe should stop ‘playing safe’ in reopened Mamasapano probe

WITH the Senate committee on public order and illegal drugs reopening the Mamasapano probe, all eyes will soon be on committee chairman and presidential hopeful Senator Grace Poe. How Poe handles the investigation and whether she can extract other crucial facts will not only be test of her credibility and independence. It will also determine whether she remains a force to be reckoned with, given the latest Social Weather Station (SWS) presidential survey showing her sliding down to second place.

If Poe wants to stop her plummeting survey ratings, she should stop “playing safe” as she did during the first Mamasapano probe when she pulled her punches every time PNoy seemed to be in the firing line.