Destabilizers go to GMA turf

ANGELES CITY — Are the destabilizers of the Arroyo administration now zeroing in on her home-province?

Four compact discs (CDs) of the alleged "master copy" of the wiretapped conversations supposedly between the President and Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano were found in a supermarket in Barangay Balibago here yesterday morning.

Chief Superintendent Alejandro Lapinid, Central Luzon police director, said he forwarded the CDs to Camp Crame without examining their contents.

"I will not dignify (those behind) the CDs. Besides, we do not have the expertise (to examine the CDs) here," he said.

Local policemen, led by Senior Inspector Lorenzo Detran, found the four CDs in separate brown envelopes in a red-striped plastic bag at the baggage counter of Johnny’s supermarket.

One of the brown envelopes even contained an empty magazine for an M-14 rifle.

The employee at the baggage counter told police that he could not remember who deposited the plastic bag.

Authorities learned about the CDs when Rudy Simeon, news manager of radio station dwGV-FM here, got a text message informing him about the CDs at about 9 a.m.

The message sender claimed that the CDs were initially turned over by former National Bureau of Investigation deputy director Samuel Ong to his third most trusted ally.

Other mediamen also got similar text messages.