A bill filed in the House of Representatives by a minority group seeks wider latitude for transparency in the use of confidential intelligence funds .
The joint oversight congressional panel will be composed of five members of the House and five members of the Senate consisting of chairperson of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance, two members of the minority bloc in the Senate, chairperson of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, chairperson of the House Committee on Appropriations, and two members of the minority bloc in the House, among others.
Likewise, the bill provides that documents related to the use of CIF will be automatically declassified by the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Intelligence and Confidential Fund 10 years after the annual audit of such document, provided that, no information related to the use of intelligence and confidential funds may remain classified indefinitely.
They cited the 2015 COA report showing that the Department of National Defense failed to liquidate P82.5 million in confidential and intelligence funds in 2011, 2012, and 2013, with almost the entire amount disbursed identified as “advances to officers and employees.”
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