Intelligence Services as a Foreign Object of Constitutional Law. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18847/1.10.8

Abstract

The intelligence structures and the intelligence work carried out by them in the constitutional democratic states have undergone profound transformations in recent decades. Substantial changes in tune with the new times, sponsored by the constitutional fit of intelligence itself. A key element to be taken into account in the development of the current constitutional account, as well as in the efforts for the defense and protection of the democratic State and the safeguarding of the constitutionally protected fundamental rights and freedoms. All this fruit of the institutional maturity under the heading of the constitutional State, reached by the intelligence services. Transformations of draft that, far from their recognition, are negatively perceived by a broad spectrum of an uninformed citizenship and contaminated by false information and stereotypes, regarding what they are and what they are for, intelligence services and activities.

Given this panorama, it is urgent to bring society, through the culture of intelligence as a vehicle of diffusion, the constitutional relevance of the intelligence services and their work, conducive to favoring the consolidation of constitutional democracy. For this, it is important to disseminate the legitimacy of the intelligence services and the performance of their functions of protection of the State and society, in accordance with the law, as a relevant element in terms of democratic quality.