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Comelec starts probe, but where's Garci?
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Leila B. Salaverria
THE COMMISSION on Elections announced yesterday it had started its investigation into the "Hello Garci" tapes-more than a month after calling for it-by sending out letters to all and sundry, except the one man who could shed light in the scandal, Virgilio Garcillano.
"We sent out letters to all persons mentioned in the Garci tapes to comment on the issue," said Comelec Chair Benjamin Abalos. However, he added that the whereabouts of Garcillano, a former Comelec commissioner, could not be established.
Disclosures of wiretapped telephone conversations between President Macapagal-Arroyo and a man the opposition has identified as Garcillano purporting to show that she cheated in the May 2004 election have plunged the nation into its worst political crisis since the ouster of President Joseph Estrada in 2001.
Ms Arroyo has confessed she talked to an election official and apologized for a "lapse in judgment" but has denied any wrongdoing.
In a recent telephone interview with the Inquirer, Garcillano himself admitted his was the voice in the wiretap, but he said that the section in which the opposition had claimed showed Ms Arroyo wanted assurance of a one-million vote margin was doctored.
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