ЗА СИСТЕМАТА ЗА НАЦИОНАЛНА СИГУРНОСТ НА РЕПУБЛИКА БЪЛГАРИЯ И ПРОБЛЕМИТЕ ПО НОРМАТИВНОТО Й РЕГЛАМЕНТИРАНЕ
ON THE BULGARIAN NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM AND THE PROBLEMS OF ITS REGULATION

Summary/Abstract: A very well known fact is that for centuries spy activities all over the world have been simultaneously blamed and covered with heroic mysticism. As a professional analyst on National security problems, I can clearly understand the reasons behind these contradictory public attitudes and I will briefly give my point of view as a part in this public discussion. At every occasion, I refer to Juvenal’s words I personally interpret as: “Who will watch the watchers?” or even "Who will guard the guardians themselves?” I have put them as a motto in full consciousness that the question has to be the focus point, the most important problem for the security and for the nation, to be solved during the National security system foundation in contemporary Bulgaria. On the other hand, to those who enjoy using strong expressions against the intelligence activities, I would like to remind what Michel de Montaigne wrote more than 500 years ago: „Likewise, in all governments there are necessary offices, not only abject, but vicious also. Vices there help to make up the seam in our piecing, as poisons are useful for the conservation of health”, just with the proviso that the judgments on vices and abject are no more than a personal issue decision. In fact, there are no possibilities to reach a consensual public attitude to the intelligence activities and their usefulness for the society. What we all definitely need is to find out the right balance and we have to find it right now, because at present we face the needs and the issues of the Bulgarian national security system foundation. For that reason, any compromise within the regulation-settlement process is inadmissible because the lack of thorough legal norms will have unpredictable negative consequences not only for the society and for the state as its paramount organization, but for the individuals as well, e.g. it will be risky for all players on the different National security levels. For the first time in our democratic development, we have the chance, and we are obliged, to implement in our practice the old traditional approach in regulation creation process – the laws have to be constituted in a way not to be changed for at least a 50 years period! The article aims neither at the past, nor even at the present, but at the future and for that reason no particular activity of the Bulgarian intelligence or police agencies (“security services” and "public order services" respectively according to the legal definition in the Classified Information Protection Act) will be analyzed or be revealed in it. What I will stress on is the experience, the negative one in particular, in Europe and USA in National security area regulation, which in my point of view we have to take in mind and into account.

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