Philippine Infrastructure Scandal: Wrapped In Blue Ribbon

Putting lipstick on a pig …


By: Manuel L. Quezon III

The Philippine Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, the upper house’s primary investigative arm for handling allegations of corruption and abuse of power, has operated since its founding in 1950 on the kind of logic that led then United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to appoint Joseph P. Kennedy, a well-known stock market specul…