Corruption as a threat to national security

Abstract

The United States and several international organizations have classified corruption as a new threat to national security. This classification places corruption in the highest level of the National Security Agendas and this entails multiple consequences political as well as legal. It also involves the development of various responses, such as broad legal reforms in different matters, changes in practices and applicative exegesis of the norms, new preventive, and repressive organisms, increase of the budgets and to recourse to the intelligence services. Since the validity of the values of the Democratic rule of law, we must modulate the scope and interference of this escalation of responses to such a serious criminal phenomenon.