Sara on intel fund: Education intertwined with national security

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“There is a joint memorandum circular with regards to the confidential fund. It is laid out there how to use the fund and how to liquidate,” Duterte said in English and Filipino, apparently referring to Joint Circular No. 2015-01 titled “Guidelines on the Entitlement, Release, Use, Reporting and Audit of Confidential and/or Intelligence Funds” dated Jan. 8, 2015.

“And by its nature, it’s a confidential fund, so we cannot discuss how we will use it in operations,” she added.

The joint circular was issued by the Department of Budget and Management, Commission on Audit, Department of National Defense, Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Governance Commission for Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations.

The joint circular states that all allocations under confidential funds and intelligence funds “shall be supported with a physical and financial plan indicating the proposed amount allocated for each program, activity and project, where disbursements pertaining to confidential expenses and intelligence expenses shall be based.”

In an interview with radio dzBB last Sunday, DepEd spokesman Undersecretary Michael Poa emphasized that the