FRANCISCO S. TATAD
AMIDST the growing blowback against President Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous war on drugs and its Siamese twin, his war on human rights, I recently caught a wacky TV episode on Netflix, which tries to present a funny caricature of the pistol-packing, venom-belching DU30. This is Episode 15, Season 3 of the political drama TV series “Madame Secretary” on the life and career of the fictional Dr. Elizabeth “Bess” Adams McCord, a CIA analyst for 20 years and a political science professor at the University of Virginia, chosen by her old boss Conrad Dalton, now US President, to replace Secretary of State Vincent Marsh who died in a plane crash.