From Yahoo News -SMDS stole show at Napoles hearing
Thus declared many news agencies on the demeanor of Sen Santiago. She was kind cool, loving yesterday, devoid of her usual histrionics. And was oozing with love towards the defendant.JLN must testify now perpetuate her testimony, before the implicated gentlemen had her assassinated. Of course, she was in her usual element oozing with sarcasm.
1. How come she knows so much about business: international trade, mining, shipbuilding and repair despite her limited education. The good senator told JLN how difficult international law on trade as a subject was. She had to be mentored to gain more knowledge on the subject matter. How come, as a girl from Basilan, whose education was not clear can be so expert on many complex businesses.
2. How come she got rich so fast? In the last ten years. She had no successful business yet was so wealthy to have 3 houses and 7 cars. Sen Santiagos hypothesis was that she got rich because of this scam, which she vehemently denies.
At the end of the day, Sen Santiago said that this hearing as an aid of legislation, wants to make public officials very qualified before they can run for public office (and not as they are - devoid of decent education, hence this misconduct) The 3 senators being implicated had commissions for billions of PDAF funds and they were alleged to have gotten 50% commission
The whistle blowers words vs that of JLN
