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Virgilio O. Garcillano filed a Petition for Prohibition and Injunction to prevent the House Committees from using illegally obtained wiretapped recordings in their reports. The discussions regarding the 'Garci tapes' were halted, but Senator Panfilo Lacson later reignited the issue with a privilege speech, promising to reveal the truth behind the alleged wiretap. He called for an inquiry into the involvement of telecommunications providers in such activities.

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Virgilio O. Garcillano filed a Petition for Prohibition and Injunction to prevent the House Committees from using illegally obtained wiretapped recordings in their reports. The discussions regarding the 'Garci tapes' were halted, but Senator Panfilo Lacson later reignited the issue with a privilege speech, promising to reveal the truth behind the alleged wiretap. He called for an inquiry into the involvement of telecommunications providers in such activities.

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Alarmed by these developments, petitioner Virgilio O.

Garcillano (Garcillano) filed with this Court a


Petition for Prohibition and Injunction, with Prayer for Temporary Restraining Order and/or Writ of
Preliminary Injunction4 docketed as G.R. No. 170338. He prayed that the respondent House
Committees be restrained from using these tape recordings of the "illegally obtained" wiretapped
conversations in their committee reports and for any other purpose. He further implored that the said
recordings and any reference thereto be ordered stricken off the records of the inquiry, and the
respondent House Committees directed to desist from further using the recordings in any of the
House proceedings.5

Without reaching its denouement, the House discussion and debates on the "Garci tapes" abruptly
stopped.

After more than two years of quiescence, Senator Panfilo Lacson roused the slumbering issue with a
privilege speech, "The Lighthouse That Brought Darkness." In his discourse, Senator Lacson
promised to provide the public "the whole unvarnished truth – the what’s, when’s, where’s, who’s
and why’s" of the alleged wiretap, and sought an inquiry into the perceived willingness of
telecommunications providers to participate in nefarious wiretapping activities.

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