Inquirer: Pnoy on plunder raps: What did I supposedly gain?

Why me?
President Aquino yesterday shrugged off plunder cases filed against him and two of his Cabinet secretaries, saying they never benefited from the pork barrel scam and the alleged misuse of the Malampaya Fund.

"In case you are right that they filed a plunder case, really, I'm just curious: What was my supposed gain here?" he asked in Filipino, noting that the crime of plunder should should involve "personal gain."

Hoy, how come your DOJ filed plunder case against PGMA just for writing an EO delineating the purpose of the use of Malampaya funds? That all. No personal gain. Also, why is she still detained when there was also no personal gain in the pcso case? The govt own star witness testified that there was no money trail to pgma. Likewise, another star witness of the govt from COA testified that all the releases have been properly liquidated and compliant with COA regulations. That the same procedure is followed now.

So please tell me why is PGMA still detained?

MLA STANDARD: JOJO ROBLES

- SCARY Aquino explain that he cannot be sued for plunder because he did not gain anything in either case. In his owns words, what he said was: "Yung element kasi ng plunder, you have to have personal gain. In the case of pork barrel and DAP funds, it's even possible to argue that AQUINO DIRECTLY BENEFITED FROM THEIR USE TO BRIBE CONGRESS INTO CONVICTING CHIEF JUSTICE RENATO CORONA.

MLA STANDARD: P1B DA funds part of team PNoy 2013 poll kitty'

- SOME P1 Billion of the P5.78 billion in unliquidated funds of the Agriculture Department became part of the campaign kitty for the administration's senatorial candidates in the 2013 elections, including the son of Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, a lawyer and a former mayor said Tuesday. Sanlakas lawyer and a former Argee Guevarra, who filed plunder charges against Alcala, said the Agriculture secretary even hired Sanlakas members as ward leaders to mount a massive campaign push for the administration's Team Pnoy senatorial slate.

MANILA STANDARD: KIT TATAD

- Were Aquino an honest man, as Osmeña put is, he would have found this a good opportunity to acknowledge his many sins as president. Not all his mistakes have been willful or grave. But he has committed grievous crimes. His use of the PDAF and DAP to bribe Congress in order to impeach and convict a Supreme Court Chief Justice and to railroad a constitutionality infirm, blatantly anti-Catholic and thoroughly divisive Reproductive Health bill is one such crime. No president has done it before. He could go down in history as the first corruptor  of Congress. Nothing in the world can support the claim that he is an honest man or president.

MANILA STANDARD: KIT TATAD - If pinoy were an honest man

- Were Aquino an honest man, as Osmeña puts it, he would have ordered the release of his psychiatric records, if only to put an end to all the foolish talk about his alleged autism, and his being allegedly afflicted  with the "madness of (England's) King George III." He could have challenged his critics then to also release their own records. But he did not.

MANILA TIMES: Foreign investment pledges FALL 43%

- Foreign investments commitments approved by investments promotion agencies (IPAs) in the fourth quarter of last year shrank by nearly half compared to the previous year, indicating that the government's investments attraction efforts may still need a lot of work. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said that approved foreign investments in the fourth quarter last year amounted to P132 billion, 42.7 percent lower than P230.2 billion investments commitments in the fourth quarter of 2012.