MLQ's post frightened me long enough to stop heckling and indulging in other such nonsense, to really think about this: Is this, as Manolo asks, a mock battle? Are we just being taken for a ride?
It took a nanosecond for Mike Defensor's bombshell to bomb. The audio expert that Mike inexpertly presented to the media last Friday has a track record that is just screaming to be impeached. Jonathan Tiongco is the same guy who had filed murder and kidnapping charges against Interior Secretary Angie Reyes and accused anti-crime crusader Teresita Ang See of staging the kidnapping of Chinese Filipinos.
He claims to have been recruited as a Deep Penetration Agent for an international agency fighting copyright violations. He said he was also "secretly trained in forensic examination of counterfeit audio material and was assigned on a few high-risk and confidential operations to infiltrate the Big Triad based in Hong Kong in Macau."
He had offered his expertise and testimony to the NBI, DOJ, and even the House committees investigating Gloriagate --- with no takers.
And, icing on this fruitcake, Tiongco campaigned for FPJ in the 2004 elections and said "I even sold my car to help his campaign."
Galing mo bro. You are one audio expert that no one will listen to.
Thanks Mike for bringing him to our attention. You truly deserve the title I now wish to confer upon you: IRON MIKE, TAGA-PLANTSA NI GLORIA. You neatly iron, fold and put away in palace closets the dirty laundry washed by Gloria Labandera. (don't look at me, Gloria Labandera is her image people's own bright idea)
And today, these 2 flash reports from the Inquirer:
Barry Dickey, the American forensic audio expert tapped by Environment Secretary Michael Defensor to examine portions of the “Hello Garci’’ tape has denied saying the tape was spliced. This was the report of dzXL radio station based on an interview conducted by Don Lino Selle, its anchor in RMN New York, with Dickey.
Selle quoted Dickey as saying he had no political agenda and no knowledge of the Filipino language to make a judgment on whether or not the tape could be used as evidence in Arroyo’s impeachment case.
Selle said Dickey confirmed having said that it was possible not just one device was used to record the two tracks sent to him for examination. But he said Dickey denied having said it was his opinion that the tape had been spliced or tampered with.
Also, this Flash Report: Sound engineer says Defensor press conference a set-up; Defensor apologizes. Jimmy Satthour, one of the foreign audio experts who showed up in the presscon of Defensor, cries foul. Says he was invited to go to a meeting to discuss an independent and non-partisan study of the hello Garci tapes.
Looks like he's been taken for a ride too -- one of many human shields being used by both camps in this mock battle.
Postscript: permanently in miron's sidebar is an invite to light a candle for truth on Aug 20. Do check it out.
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