{"id":14010,"date":"2014-06-07T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14010"},"modified":"2014-06-07T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T07:23:30","slug":"palace-to-cam-dont-make-ca-venue-to-personally-grind-sec-de-lima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/07\/palace-to-cam-dont-make-ca-venue-to-personally-grind-sec-de-lima\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace to Cam: Don\u2019t make CA venue to personally grind Sec. De Lima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_11519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11519\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Appointments (CA) is not the proper venue to take on personal issues against presidential appointees, a Malacanang official on Saturday said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">This was the statement made by deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte after whistleblowers&#8217; association president Sandra Cam threatened to bare alleged sex videos of Justice Sec. Leila De Lima.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Cam said that she would release four cuts of alleged videos of Sec. De Lima\u2019s \u2018illicit affairs\u2019 with her driver and bodyguard if the Secretary gets confirmed by the CA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It can be recalled that the whistleblowers\u2019 president has disapproved of De Lima for turning pork-barrel scam beneficiary Ruby Tuason become a state witness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cWe do not respond to threats of any nature,\u201d Valte said in an interview over state-run dzRB radio referring to Cam\u2019s threat to bare De Lima\u2019s alleged sex videos. \u201cIt\u2019s prudent not to respond to threats like this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Valte stressed that the purpose of the CA confirmation was to weigh the capacity of a President\u2019s appointee to fulfill her duty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cIf you can\u2019t get what you want, maybe you shouldn\u2019t use the CA as a venue to pursue whatever axe it is you have to personally grind against Sec. De Lima,\u201d Valte said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Appointments (CA) is not the proper venue to take on personal issues against presidential appointees, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4795,4693,4792,4793,4794],"class_list":["post-14010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-cam","tag-commission-on-appointments","tag-malacanang-palace","tag-personal-grind","tag-sec-de-lima","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}