In the Philippines, a long-running effort to hold local officials accountable for defective and fraudulent flood control infrastructure has surfaced as a public dispute between two senators — one accusing the other of selective focus, the other insisting the net of accountability is already cast wide. Senator Lacson's years of documented investigation, now in the hands of the Ombudsman, suggest that the question is not whether corruption in public works is systemic, but whether the institutions charged with addressing it will follow the evidence to its full conclusion. The exchange is a remind