{"id":2099,"date":"2008-06-25T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/25\/did-or-did-not\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T00:27:20","slug":"did-or-did-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/25\/did-or-did-not\/","title":{"rendered":"did or did not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm..yesterday was quite interesting. RPK gave a statutory declaration that included statement saying PM Badawi received a report from military intelligence. But Badawi <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/6\/25\/nation\/21650946&amp;sec=nation\">denied<\/a> it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, if you remember the indelible ink issue during the last election, the Election Comission&#8217;s chairman Abdul Rashid said that it was the Cabinet decision that &#8220;instructed&#8221; him to not use the inks (bought for RM2 million &#8211; can purchase land and build one Tamil school!) just days before the election. If I&#8217;m not mistaken the chairman implicated PM Badawi as well. In yesterday&#8217;s Parliament session, PM gave a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/6\/25\/nation\/21646861&amp;sec=nation\">written reply<\/a> to Lim Guan Eng&#8217;s question. According to the reply, the Cabinet only &#8220;suggested&#8221; and the decision was still with the commission.<\/p>\n<p>So, who is lying and who is not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm..yesterday was quite interesting. RPK gave a statutory declaration that included statement saying PM Badawi received a report from military intelligence. But Badawi denied it. Then, if you remember the indelible ink issue during the last election, the Election Comission&#8217;s chairman Abdul Rashid said that it was the Cabinet decision that &#8220;instructed&#8221; him to not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,225],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-election-2008","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}