Just Before Deadline
SC ruling on Neri
may lead to cover up

MANILA. The High Tribunal's ruling on the petition of Commission on Higher Education chair Romulo Neri in connection with the Senate's investigation on the anomalous National Broadband Network (NBN) contract with Chinese firm, ZTE Corp., did not only castrate Congress' power of legislative inquiry but also has the effect of covering up a crime.

While the Supreme Court's (SC) decision upholding the doctrine of executive privilege only centered on the three questions related to Neri's conversations with President Arroyo about the NBN-ZTE contract, this opens the door for possible abuse of the doctrine in other Senate inquiries, interviews by abs-cbnNews.com/Newsbreak showed.
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