MANILA - Malacanang on Tuesday released a copy of the memorandum directing all officials and employees of the Executive Department to stop attending the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearings chaired by Senator Richard "Dick" Gordon. This, after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the memorandum during his Talk to the People on Monday night, a week after he asked Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea to draft it. Under the memo, Medialdea underscored how the Executive Department has been showing "due respect" to the Senate panel through "faithful attendance" and "participation" of its officials and employees in the hearings. The memo, however, noted that there are "clear indications" that the hearings are meant to go on indefinitely and are conducted "not in aid of legislation, but to identify persons to hold accountable for alleged irregularities already punishable under existing laws." The memo said the Senate panel has "s