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Cloak and dagger: Duterte's record-high 2020 intel budget

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 30 11:57 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte is asking Congress to authorize P8.28 billion of the government’s proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 on surveillance alone—the highest of his term. Read more »

Palace: P1.5 billion increase in Duterte's budget 'necessary'

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 03:44 PM

The Duterte administration is proposing an P8.2 billion budget for the Office of the President next year, P1.5 billion higher than the P6.7 billion this year.  Read more »

PH turning into police state? House urged to probe rise in Duterte intel funds

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 23 12:51 PM

The Philippines is turning into a police state, leftist lawmakers warned Friday as President Rodrigo Duterte's office sought to double its intelligence funds. Read more »

Supreme Court clears ex-PCSO chief of malversation

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 30 03:59 PM

The Supreme Court has cleared of malversation a former head of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) who had originally been accused of plunder with former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo over the release of the P365-million PCSO confidential and intelligence funds. Read more »

De Lima seeks probe on use of gov't intelligence funds

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 25 07:52 PM

MANILA - Sen. Leila de Lima has filed a bill seeking to investigate if the government's intelligence funds are properly used. Read more »

Gov't spent double on confidential, intel funds in 2017 from 2016

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 29 06:48 PM

The confidential and intelligence funds of the national government shot up by 101.78% from P4.44 billion in 2016 to P8.98 billion in 2017. Read more »

Opposition solons flag 2019 budget for confidential, intel funds

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 22 08:26 PM

Opposition lawmakers sought a breakdown of the Office of the President's budget allocation for national-security oversight programs, hoping they would not be used to "silence the opposition." Read more »

Gov't intel funds to rise in 2018

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 28 12:02 AM

The Duterte administration is seeking bigger intelligence funds in 2018. Read more »