{"id":41868,"date":"2015-02-11T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41868"},"modified":"2015-02-11T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:01:56","slug":"purisima-roxas-and-espina-were-not-informed-of-mamasapano-for-security-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/purisima-roxas-and-espina-were-not-informed-of-mamasapano-for-security-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Purisima: Roxas and Espina were not informed of Mamasapano for \u2018security purposes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41756\" style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purisima-alan-senate-mamasapano-e1423577022668.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41756\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purisima-alan-senate-mamasapano-e1423577022668.jpg\" alt=\"Resigned PNP Chief Alan Purisima at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (screenshot from Rappler footage)\" width=\"513\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purisima-alan-senate-mamasapano-e1423577022668.jpg 513w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purisima-alan-senate-mamasapano-e1423577022668-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resigned PNP Chief Alan Purisima at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (screenshot from Rappler footage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 According to resigned Philippine National Police chief Alan Purisima, he advised SAF commander Leo Napenas not to inform his direct superiors regarding the details of the horribly executed Mamasapano operation for \u201csecurity purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the Senate on Tuesday, Purisima said that he opted to keep Secretary Mar Roxas and PNP OIC Leonardo Espina in the dark \u201cfor operational security purposes,&#8221; pointing out that he was merely following the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Napenas, on the other hand, noted that although there was no direct order from President Aquino to go ahead with the Mamasapano operation, the approval to do so was implied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two occasions that I joined Purisima for the mission update with the president, I was never given any guidance that the mission is a no-go,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, President Aquino was not in violation of any law in his decision to consult with Purisima \u2013 who was initially suspended\u00a0 from his position, on charges of alleged graft and corruption \u2013 on the mission to seize international terrorist and bom maker Marwan.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s inquiry into the Mamasapano massacre resumes on Thursday, February 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 According to resigned Philippine National Police chief Alan Purisima, he advised SAF commander Leo Napenas not to inform &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868","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=41868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}