MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Vicente Sotto III suggested on Tuesday that National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) Director General Alex Monteagudo may have been “misinformed” when he said that communist rebels had held insiders at the Senate for a long time.
Sotto was responding to a Facebook post purportedly shared by an account with Monteagudo’s name and picture, which said that “the Senate of the Philippines is manned” by a front organization for the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, and the National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).
The post was referring to Courage, a government workers’ union with a Senate chapter…
Keep on reading: Sotto says NICA chief may be ‘misinformed’ on claims CPP-NPA has spies at Senate