The Senate on Wednesday, September 6 convened the select oversight hearing on the confidential and intelligence funds (CIF), programs and activities in a bid to address questions and criticisms regarding the huge amount of CIF allocations given to key government agencies under the proposed...
There is something fundamentally wrong if the Office of the Vice President is guaranteed a higher confidential and intelligence fund (CIF) over the Department of National Defense (DND) and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) and other government agencies whose primary task includes...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Commission on Audit (COA) Chairman Gamaliel Cordoba said it's a good idea to update the joint circular used to scrutinize the utilization of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) by government agencies. Cordoba made this remark...
Vice President Sara Duterte shrugged off the comments made by House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro against the P500-million confidential funds that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) requested, insisting instead that the matter must be left to Congress....
The Senate minority bloc has vowed to move for the realignment of the confidential and intelligence (CIF) funds under the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education during the period of amendments of the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023. Both the budget of...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III on Wednesday, November 9 sought the realignment of the Marcos administration’s P9.3-billion intelligence and confidential funds (CIFs). If this is not possible, Pimentel said these funds should be used for food, ‘ayuda’ (financial...
The Commission on Audit’s admission of experiencing difficulty in auditing confidential and intelligence funds disbursements has made it necessary for Congress to pass the bill creating a joint congressional oversight body to examine multi-billion peso allocations for the said program. Malacanang...
