SEN. Ronald 'Bato' de la Rosa would have us believe that the hearings he has called at the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, which he chairs, will be focused on the leak of confidential documents containing allegations linking prominent personalities to illegal drugs.

And yet he has given people reason to now believe that that is just an excuse to use the Senate to take down President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., whose name appears on the leaked documents. After all, Senator de la Rosa was uncategorical in his statement that the leaked document was not fabricated, thereby implying that its contents should be believed. This would therefore mean that the allegation that the President was, at the very least, being investigated for drug use, together with other prominent personalities, is not coming from a fabricated document.