Today's Sports News - Wednesday December 12, 2007
CNS off the hook in secret documents case
(BangkokPost.com) – The country’s governing Council for National Security (CNS) on Wednesday was cleared of any wrongdoing for its role behind the secret documents scandal which contained an order to suppress a certain political party.
Election Commission (EC) members voted 4-1 in favour of exonerating the CNS, with the reason that the said documents had not affected any political party or any individual.
The majority of EC members also agreed that the CNS should not be punished since no financial budget had been approved to carry out the order.
The only EC member who voted against the CNS was Sodsri Sattayatham.
EC chairman Apichart Sukhagganond assured that EC members used their own personal judgement to conclude the case and did not allow their decision to be influenced by the CNS.
The poll agency is due to consider the controversial distribution of VCDs containing a message from ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra later this afternoon.
13:02 Dec 12, 2007
Bangkok Post
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