IF anyone had hoped that the House hearings on the Jan. 25 Mamasapano, Maguindanao massacre would help clear President B. S. Aquino of his culpability in the death of 44 PNP-Special Action Force commandos, and make more people oppose the call for his immediate resignation, those hopes were quickly dashed to the granite floor on the last day. The hearings showed that truth and reason, as we knew them, had lost their meaning in the hands of those resolved to save Aquino from his own deeds and omissions, and that more people have all the reasons in the world now to want him gone as soon as possible.

Because he could not ascertain who were speaking the truth and who weren’t, Partylist Rep. Samuel Pagdilao of ACT-CIS proposed a polygraph test for the resource persons. The committee failed to act upon the proposal, but it was rather unprecedented--nothing like it had ever been proposed in any previous inquiry in aid of congressional oversight, or legislation. That’s how far the state of lying even in Congress has gone.

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