| Members of the PNP Special Action Force and private security guards watch the US Embassy in Manila. The embassy was indefinitely closed to the public starting Tuesday “due to plausible threat information.” A police squad, however, found no bomb. (AP photo) |
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CEBU CITY -- Representative Clavel Asas-Martinez admitted Tuesday that she talked with Virgilio Garcillano, but said it was the former election official who went to her office last year to ask for support for his confirmation at the Commission on Appointments.
Martinez (Cebu, 4th district), who was formerly allied with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was a member of the commission last year.
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