Vulnerability of Key Institutions of the Romanian State, a Matter of Morality or Legality?
Vulnerability of Key Institutions of the Romanian State, a Matter of Morality or Legality?

Author(s): Clara Maria Oancea, Flavius Adrian Oancea
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Public Administration, Security and defense
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: investigations; falsified; ORNISS; state secrets; moral probity; classified information; information security; discrimination; inequity; national security;
Summary/Abstract: Based on extensive journalistic investigations, it was discovered that the high official of the Romanian State, accused of falsifying his baccalaureate diploma, not only did not graduate from high school, but never held the position of deputy director at ORNISS, the institution that certifies civilians and military to access and manage state secrets. His appointment as President of ORNISS was categorized as “the biggest system error (at least the only one known) that has occurred to date in Romania”, the position temporarily held by Laurentiu Baranga being made after careful checks attesting to moral and legal probity of those who occupy it, and for 10 years he worked in ORNISS, being one of the officials with high positions in the state who had to guard the State precisely from the occurrence of fraud situations. As a rule, access to classified information is made on the basis of a specialized guarantee that the individual is physically, intellectually, morally and characteristically capable of doing so, without being blackmailable, so as not to become a vulnerability to information security and security status. Art. 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides for the prohibition of discrimination, but through the text of art. 7 of Law 182 discrimination is instituted in favor of the persons mentioned in par. (4) and a visible inequity and discrimination is created against persons who are obliged to go through the flow provided by national standards, as well as an infinite number of vulnerabilities to national security and cooperation frameworks.

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