O Controle parlamentar da atividade de inteligência no Brasil: um estudo sobre a produção legislativa da CCAI e da CREDN entre os anos de 2003 a 2010

Abstract

The present work is the result of a research on the parliamentary control of the intelligence activity carried out particulaly by the Joint Commission for the Control of Intelligence Activities (CCAI) and the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense (CREDN) between 2003 and 2010, the period correspond to the first leftist government in Brazil, which aroused the interest to analyze the system of external control made by the Brazilian legislature, with emphasis on its legislative production and the analysis of the contents of interviews with actors involved in this process. The research was developed following the methodology of Neoinstitutionalism of rational choice and Neo discursive institutionalism, with the theoretical help of the analysis of Bardin's discourse. Based on the central hypothesis that there is no effective control of intelligence activity in Brazil, parliamentary documents (minutes, reports, laws) of the selected period were analyzed, as well as interviews with actors involved in the process. In this way, the work was developed to explain the process of historical evolution of the intelligence services as a State activity, its role in the decision process, its different evolutions in the world and in Latin America and Brazil and the role of the Regulatory Commissions. It is concluded that, despite the existence of legislative Committees for the control and control of intelligence activity, its performance because being deficient due to political movements and the absence of a specific training of the members of these Commissions.