Updated 3:17pm, President confirms. (on Inquirer breaking news: ZTE unofficial denial of the Presidents’ Shenzhen visit Oct-Nov. 2006; photos, etc.)

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      UPDATE: Executive Secretary Ed Ermita in a press con aired on NBN4 at 3:10 pm today confirmed that the President and her entourage which included then Speaker de Venecia, visited Shenzhen on November 2, 2006; played golf, was treated to lunch by ZTE officials, and was given a tour of the ZTE plant. He also indirectly confirmed that Comelec chair Ben Abalos was there, saying “The President did not know why a particular person (referring to Abalos) was there.”

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     There was no record that your President visited the ZTE office in Shenzhen,  www.inquirer.net , an hour ago (11:00am),  reported a ZTE foreign relations official as having said, on request of non-disclosure of his name. (www.inquirer.net )

       Inquirer’s direct quote was “There is no visit from your President.” The indirect quote was: There was no record of the visit on both October and November 2006.

      “No visit” and “No record of visit” are not the same. Some people  don’t have birth certificates, (and feel they don’t need it and are fine),  it doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

       Photos are documentary evidence. Plane tickets, logbook entries, airline manifests, etc. are also examples of documentary evidence. If authentic they are evidence of the information contained in them and nothing more. The photographer has to authenticate the photo. If used as part of a testimony, they are corroborative evidence of the portion of the testimony that they are made part of.

         One of the photos,  if authenticated as genuine and unretouched,  by itself and without any principal testimony,  is evidence that the President and her husband were walking on a golf course at some point in their lives. Another  photo showing an expansive hedge trimmed to spell “Shenzhen” (English spelling) on the background with  the President and FG walking as foreground, if authenticated as genuine and unretouched, by itself and without any  principal testimony, is evidence that the President and FG walked on such Shenzhen golf course at some point in their lives. Digital cameras have calendars and dates but they can be reset, but the resetting is recorded. So, you might actually have to produce the memory card itself, the digicam, and the photographer of course. And of course, producing the memory card will show the  owner’s face (like any typical owner of a digicam), presumably he took several photos including of himself, friends, family, etc.; risky, so this can only be done when the alleged witness  is ready.