That’s what we want to tell AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon and his not so intelligent "intelligence agents" who had someone pose as Capt. Nicanor Faeldon and called up ABS-CBN and GMA-7 to give an interview.

The style was so rotten that it stank. We are wondering what sinister plan they are up to.

Faeldon’s lawyer, Trixie Angeles, thinks it was a ploy to flush out Faeldon who escaped at the height of the melee last November 29 at the Manila Peninsula.

Esperon’s unintelligent intelligence agents probably think that an interview with an impostor Capt. Faeldon, would compel the real one to surface to grant an interview. It’s presumed that they would be monitoring ABS-CBN’s Ces Drilon closely so that when the interview with the real Faeldon happens, they would be there to arrest him. They presume that Faeldon lacks intelligence like them.

Military agents have to resort to such indelicate strategy because they are racing against time. Esperon is supposed to end his extended term on May 9. It is apparent that Esperon wants to wrap up his crusade against officers who have continued to remain firm against dishonesty and corruption in the Arroyo administration. That includes the more than 20 Magdalo officers led by Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and the 28 officers implicated in the Feb. 26 alleged mutiny led by Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda.

Esperon probably does not trust his successor Lt. Gen. Alexander Yano to be as hard on the detained officers so he wants to inflict permanent harm on them that could not be undone by Yano.

The past weeks, we have seen a flurry of backdoor negotiations with the detained officers. They paraded the nine former Magdalo officers led by Capt. Gerardo Gambala as an example of what happens to those who surrender to the illegitimate president. Gambala and company are expected to be granted pardon before Esperon exits.

The Gambala gambit, however, has not been successful in luring the principled officers to do the same.

The other business that Esperon would like finish off would be Faeldon, who has a P1 million price on his head. "Many strange things are happening when officials are about to retire. It looks like intelligence operatives are looking for a retirement gift. After the nine former Magdalo officers, Captain Faeldon is definitely a prize," Angeles said.

But for a while, after ABS-CBN aired the interview with the fake Faeldon, there were concerns among his friends that he could have been captured and that ISAFP was merely preparing the scene for a public presentation of the slippery marine officer, either dead or alive.

It was recalled that before the capture of Army Lt. Lawrence San Juan was made public, there was someone who claimed to be San Juan interviewed on radio.

We can glean from Angeles’ statement that the military does not have Faeldon in their custody. "To be clear, Capt. Faeldon is indeed out. He has left detention to continue the fight for a credible government, a fight he had begun in 2003. While he is willing to take responsibility for any and all of his actions, he will not allow an illegitimate authority to exercise power over him. He will not be judged by a criminal syndicate masquerading as government (his words). Nor will he allow himself or his name to be used by any interests other than the higher interests of this country," she said.

What intrigues us is the attempt by the fake Faeldon to revive the involvement of Sen. Gregorio Honasan in the 2003 Oakwood siege. Have Gambala and company given Esperon new info against Honasan, who is now on the same side with him defending Arroyo’s illegitimate presidency? Is there something that Esperon knows about Honasan that he is concerned would be a threat to Arroyo and also to himself?