‘Intelligence fund’
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
There are a good number of intriguing and perplexing, if not suspicious, financial issues in the government from the local to the national levels. There are many serious questions asked about public funds perceived as benefiting private pockets of government officials. More specifically, there are real and ardent inquiries raised in conjunction with the standard, sizeable and impressive appropriations under the fascinating title of “intelligence fund.”
Said funds are in the hands of a good number of government entities. The Office of the President has it as some kind of a prerogative. The Armed Forces of the Philippines has it as it should. The Law and Order agencies have them as a matter of course. The truth is that even gambling corporations have them. But this is not all. There is the added truth that all so-called “intelligence funds” while glaring in amounts, are nevertheless beyond honest to goodness accounting..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110825com7.html
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