SurpriseD witness

And so it wasn’t the Super Tuesday it was hyped up to be.

Senator Ping Lacson’s so-called “surprise witness” who would, the senator claimed, tell everything he knew about alleged payoffs and kickbacks in the NBN-ZTE deal, on Tuesday told the Senate everything he knew: nothing.

“I’m very surprised that I’m the surprise witness,” businessman Leo San Miguel said during a break in the hearing.

Well, we’re surprised that he’s surprised that he’s the surprise witness, considering that media headlines almost a week before the hearing were building up towards a possible explosion (the absence of which was made even more anticlimactic with the prior minor explosion in the face of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, which pointed to the wrong man.)

Lacson, ever secretive, would not say if he was surprised that we’re surprised that San Miguel was surprised that he was the surprise witness.