THE HAGUE, Netherlands (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – Once a Rapplerette, always a Rapplerette. Or better still, like Maria Ressa, like Lian Buan.

Buan, who is on sabbatical, boasted of her recent meeting with ICC judge Solomy Balungi Bossa where she provided the latter with imagined news about the Philippines, particularly during the past Duterte administration.

As if what she says matters, Buan emulated her boss Ressa who made it to the Nobel Prize through her lies.

Moreover, Buan seemed to forget that what she says over wine and cocktails doesn’t hold in the court of law.

Is a declaration of being a persona non grata awaiting Buan’s return to the Philippines?