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Ali Atienza, lawyer appointed as DICT usec, asec Share on email The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has not formally announced it yet, but a new undersecretary and assistant secretary have been appointed at the agency by Malacanang. DICT undersecretary Ali Atienza (left) and assistant secretary Gerald James Reyes (Photo credit: DICT) Arnold “Ali” Atienza, son of former Manila mayor and now Buhay party-list representative Jose “Lito” Atienza, has been named undersecretary for government digital broadcast television and the digitalization of the entertain...

>> can i speak first and let carte follow up on that. there's no litmus test, when you worked side by side for four years, day and night, and you know a person -- i have said this about west virginiaian, we could look at your eyes and see your soul. but when you spend 24 hours a day, you get to know them. that's what i knew. that's where i started making my decisions a based on a person that i knew would be impeccable as far as in the decision making process. uncover any stone, do all of the research it would take. bring me the pros and cons, i know he'll do it more so for himself. ...

>> i would say minimum perhaps a year. >> sir. >> congressman, i don't have a imagine it bullet as to when that time would be, but i would agree there would be some kind of sliding scale. however, because that is a difficult question, and there are many difficult questions, that question alone and any others that we face should not be used to obfuscate or delay a passage of some kind of -- >> with all due respect, sure, i'm not asking to obfuscate. this is a very difficult issue. i spen ten years trying to get it done the first time around, and these are theifficult things we have to...