Trillanes to tell all only to independent body

Detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV said Tuesday he is willing to tell everything he knows about an alleged Malacañang link to the Glorietta 2 blast, but only to an independent commission. In a statement posted on his website, Trillanes said he wants the body to be "independent, impartial and credible." "As a person, and now as an elected lawmaker, I do not just make statements out of pique, or without anything to stand on, or to grandstand. I have information obtained from my own network of informants in the AFP and the intelligence community," he said. He said agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) visited him twice last Saturday supposedly to gather information about his statement. Trillanes had claimed that National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales and military chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr may have something to do with last Friday's explosion, which killed 11 people and injured over 100 others. Last Monday, Director Gen. Avelino Razon Jr, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, chided the senator for allegedly betraying the trust of those who voted for the latter in the last May election by refusing to cooperate. "I am willing to cooperate and reveal all the information I have in front of an independent, impartial and credible body. Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) officials have visited me in my detention cell twice to gather information but I simply cannot imagine them investigating Gonzales and Esperon once I give them everything I know," Trillanes said. He added that, "For that matter, did we ever have a truly impartial investigation conducted by the Arroyo administration?" He challenged the government to create the independent commission composed of competent and respected members of society to really get to the bottom of the blast. "The victims of this carnage, more than anything else, need justice," he said. He also took a dig at Gonzales, whom he said was one of the masterminds of the Light-a-Fire Movement in the 1970s, the anti-Marcos group responsible for several bombings in Metro Manila. This information is readily available in the Internet and was even documented in the memoirs of Ed Olaguer, one of the leaders of the Light-a-Fire Movement, he said. "In short, this man is very much capable of wreaking havoc to our society. He is the true terrorist," Trillanes added.