What chain of command? Aquino’s above everything

We did not need the 120-page Philippine National Police Board of Inquiry report to tell us that President B. S. Aquino 3rd “violated the PNP chain of command” in the Jan. 25 Operation Exodus, where 44 PNP-Special Action Force commandos were massacred by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. We all knew this before the inquiry began.

This was the cause of everything else that went wrong in the operation, and of all the lies we have since heard from the effort to absolve Aquino of all blame. We did not need the BOI report to tell us this. We needed the report to tell us why Aquino broke the chain, and what punishment should be inflicted on him for all the harm his act had caused.The BOI report was completely silent on this.