Aquino’s trust and confidence on Puno has not wavered, invoking the “ innocent until proven guilty” principle. We can’t help but compare his leniency with Puno with his hard-heartedness in the cases of Prisco Nilo , the former administrator of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services, and former NBI director Magtanggol Gatdula, both of whom he shamed in public. In the Aquino administration, there are special people. Rico Puno is obviously is one of them. After days of deafening silence on the issue of his favorite undersecretary, Rico Puno , in-charge of police matters at the Department of Interior and Local Government, attempting to get hold of the documents in the possession of the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, President Aquino finally spoke and revealed that it was upon his orders that Puno did it. Speaking to media on the sidelines of the summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Vladivostok, Russia, Aquino disclosed: “Sometime ...