The chief of staff of Bureau of Customs (BOC) commissioner Nicanor Faeldon got a scolding at the House of Representatives for calling Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez an imbecile in a Facebook post. ADVERTISEMENTThis after Fariñas received word about Anderson’s Facebook post commenting on an Inquirer article about Alvarez’s threat to dissolve the Court of Appeals. Anderson said she wrote the Facebook post as part of her freedom of expression. “Do you believe as a government official, you can call out the fourth highest official of the land an imbecile?” Fariñas asked Anderson. The Congress has the power to abolish the CA because the CA is a creation of Congress,” Fariñas said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 27, 2017 05:14 UTC