Palace defends appointment of controversial ex-colonel: 'The President knows what he's doing'

MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte knows what he's doing. Malacañang stressed this on Monday in defending the appointment of Allen Capuyan, a retired colonel linked to the P6.4-billion shabu smuggling controversy, as the executive director of the national secretariat for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict.