Poe asks Purisima: what are you afraid of?

Senator Grace Poe, chair of the Senate public order committee, criticized the decision of resigned police chief Alan Purisima not to allow Smart Communications to release a log of mobile phone numbers he texted onJanuary 25. The doubt only grows, Poe said, when he refuses to cooperate in relating what happened based on his knowledge of events in the operation that resulted in the deaths of 44 elite troops, 18 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and at least 3 civilians. Purisima also only submitted an affidavit to the Board of Inquiry and rejected requests for an interview. “If you are not hiding something, then what are you afraid of?” Poe asked in Filipino.

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