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Lacson Urges Update, Expansion of COA Audit Rules on Confidential and Intelligence Funds

The Commission on Audit (COA)’s rules governing the audit of confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) should be updated and expanded to ensure greater accountability, Senator-Judge Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson said Wednesday.

Lacson raised the need to revisit the Joint Memorandum Circular after COA auditor Roderick Wamil said that the agency’s audit of CIF is limited to a document-based compliance audit under current guidelines.

He also raised the issue of whether auditors assigned to confidential and intelligence funds should be granted the appropriate security clearance to access classified documents needed for a thorough audit.

In Filipino: Lacson, Nanawagan na I-update at Palawakin ang COA Rules sa Pag-audit ng Confidential at Intelligence Funds

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Ping Lacson: Intelligence Funds Only to Mandated Line Agencies

Intelligence funds should be given only to the line agencies involved in intelligence work because they have the needed training to use such funds, former Sen. Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson stressed Monday.

Lacson, in an interview on DZBB’s “Ikaw Na Ba? The Senatorial Interviews,” said other agencies that need intelligence inputs or information may tap the services of these agencies.

“I think intelligence funds should be given to the intelligence community. Line agencies needing intelligence information can tap them because they do not have the needed training to conduct intelligence operations,” he said in Filipino.

Related: Ping Lacson: Intel Funds, sa Ahensyang May Mandato Lamang

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Interview on IKAW NA BA? The Senatorial Interviews

On Ikaw na Ba: The Senatorial Interviews, former Sen. Ping Lacson answers questions on:
* Confidential and Intelligence funds
* National Budget
* Anti-drug war
* West Philippine Sea
* Legislated wage hike

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Ping: Confidential Funds and Political ‘Ceasefire’

In an interview on NET25, Ping Lacson answers questions on:
* Political ‘ceasefire’
* Confidential and Intelligence Funds

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On Ensuring the Proper Use of Intelligence and Confidential Funds

We have organized and activated a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Confidential Funds. Its primary function is to exercise congressional oversight on how such funds are utilized.

The Committee can demand, if it so desires, the submission of pertinent documents of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) such as approved intelligence project proposals and the like. The minority bloc is an indispensable part of the select committee.

The present Senate can constitute such a select committee by electing its members and thereafter exercise its functions.

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