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The "hello" operator is unnecessary.

• It’s “Hello, Garci” time again

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:46 am

  Tags: Pcij Videocasts, 2004 Electoral Fraud, Gloriagate, 2004 Elections, Electoral Fraud, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Hello, Vidal Doble, Viriglio Garcillano, Garci Tapes

  tale of the “Hello, Garci” tapes, the Senate has reopened the investigation into the recordings after Sen. Panfilo Lacson delivered a privilege speech and former Philippine Air Force Technical Sergeant Vidal Doble Jr. surfaced yet again. Administration senators, however, have raised concerns about the legality of the inquiry on

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• The tangled tale of the tapes

  Published: August 23, 2007, 4:50 am

  Tags: 2004 Electoral Fraud, Gloriagate, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Hello Garci Tapes, Philippines, Vidal Doble, Virgilio Garcillano

  commissioner Virgilio Garcillano are genuine, serving only to revive interest in the so-called “Hello, Garci” tapes. What Doble is now saying confirms what we found out at the height of the scandal

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• No legal obstacles to Senate probe on ‘Hello, Garci’ tapes

  Published: August 25, 2007, 4:13 am

  Tags: 2004 Electoral Fraud, Gloriagate, Congress Watch, In The News, 2004 Elections, Electoral Fraud, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Hello Garci Tapes, Philippines, Virgilio Garcillano

  on the “Hello, Garci” tapes. University of the Philippines law professor Harry Roque Jr. made this assertion in response to the concerns raised by some senators about conducting an investigation that would hear wiretapped conversations between Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and

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• Growth and decline during the 2007 polls

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:34 am

  Tags: 2007 Elections, Civil Society, 2004 Electoral Fraud, Comelec Watch, Media Issues, 2004 Elections, 2007 Elections, Comelec, Elections, Election Watchdogs, Hello Garci Tapes, Media

  THE good news is that Filipino voters are becoming more discerning and many among the mass media are improving their coverage of elections. Yet the same positive assessment cannot be said of the electoral exercise itself and the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Major players in the media community the Philippine Daily Inquirer, ABS-CBN and

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• Defensor has more to explain about NBN deal

  Published: February 12, 2008, 3:53 am

  Tags: Governance, In The News, Arroyo Administration, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Hello Garci Tapes, Jose Miguel Arroyo, Michael Defensor, National Broadband Network, Presidential Chief Of Staff, Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr, Zte Corporation

  IT appears that former presidential chief of staff Michael Defensor is back in harness, playing his old, familiar role as defender of the Arroyo administration. The public will remember Defensor for his daring rescue of a Senate witness, Eugenio ‘Udong’ Mahusay Jr., who was about to testify on the alleged Jose Pidal secret back account

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• Yet another alarming case of wiretapping

  Published: February 23, 2008, 3:12 am

  Tags: Gloriagate, Governance, In The News, 2004 Elections, Electoral Fraud, Gloriagate, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Hello Garci Tapes, Intelligence Service Of The Armed Forces Of The Philippines, Jose De Venecia Iii, Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr, Virgilio Garcillano, Wiretapping

  controversial “Hello, Garci” tapes of supposed wiretapped phone conversations between Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and then election commissioner Virgilio Garcillano that surfaced in 2005, now comes another apparent case of electronic eavesdropping that has been made public on the popular video-sharing website, YouTube. The subject of the

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• Catholic bishops again to Arroyo’s rescue?

  Published: February 27, 2008, 5:57 am

  Tags: In The News, Catholic Bishops Conference Of The Philippines, Executive Order 464, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Hello Garci Tapes, National Broadband Network

  FROM exhorting people to “watch and pray” and to engage in “communal action” to get to the truth of recent allegations of what they call as “scandalous and shady government deals that offend the common good and serve only personal, family and group interests,” the country’s Catholic bishops stopped short,

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• Lesser known ‘Hello, Garci’ characters as newsmakers

  Published: March 30, 2008, 2:37 am

  Tags: 2004 Electoral Fraud, Gloriagate, In The News, Alioden Dalaig, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Hello Garci Tapes, Ruben Reyes, Virgilio Garcillano, Wynne Asdala

  aware of the “Hello, Garci” tapes, the infamous wiretapped recordings seem to have a way of easing their way back into the realm of public discourse. The audio files, after all, involve genuine conversations as confirmed by a former military agent who was himself involved in the bugging

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