An article published by Gazeta Wyborcza, which was supposed to serve as alleged proof that the head of the National Security Bureau (BBN) concealed important information in a security questionnaire, in the opinion of President Nawrocki’s adviser, Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz, fits into a pattern of “a series of recurring publications of a provocative nature, aimed at reducing the effectiveness of the Polish state.“ In an interview with the Niezależna.pl portal, the sociologist also pointed out that Tusk “considers his voters to be idiots.“
“And the fact that a substantial part of them, not reacting at all to such blatant situations as today’s, related to the medical data concerning Sławomir Cenckiewicz, only confirms how thoroughly the current prime minister’s voters have been bamboozled,“ he assessed.
On Monday, Wojciech Czuchnowski published an article in Gazeta Wyborcza in which he argues that Sławomir Cenckiewicz allegedly concealed in his security questionnaire the fact that he was taking psychotropic medication. He suggests that this was precisely the reason for the head of the BBN losing access to classified information and directly accuses him of lying. Let us recall that a different view on this matter was taken by the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw, which on June 17, 2025, overturned the decisions of the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW) and Prime Minister Donald Tusk in this case.
A series of recurring publications
In an interview with the Niezależna.pl portal, Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz admitted that, in his assessment, this publication “apart from obviously being yet another manifestation of the collapse of moral and legal standards, is part of a series of recurring publications of a provocative nature, aimed at reducing the effectiveness of the Polish state and hindering the achievement of even minimal agreement between the President’s Office and the government.“
“This is the main role of this publication. And in my opinion, it is the main role that Gazeta Wyborcza has played for years – weakening the Polish state, including in critical situations,“ the sociologist added.
We asked our interlocutor about the credibility of Czuchnowski’s declarations, in which he assures that he verified the materials provided to him by an informant (most likely originating from the special services). Such verification could only have been carried out with the help of a source located within the SKW or the Internal Security Agency (ABW), which in turn would have to mean a far-reaching dysfunction in one of these services.
“Both scenarios indicate a pathological situation, because the informant could not have obtained this data anywhere other than within the services. So if Czuchnowski did not fabricate all of this, then first someone from the services brought him the material, and then someone else from there confirmed it. Or it was the same person acting in two guises,” he assessed.
Erosion of trust in the services
Prof. Zybertowicz noted, however, that statements about Czuchnowski’s information sources “should not be taken too literally.“
“Nevertheless, there is no doubt that, just as it was with the asset declarations of candidate Nawrocki during the presidential campaign, we are now dealing with the same phenomenon – the use, for political struggle, of information that citizens entrust to their state under conditions of special trust. Undermining trust in the field of secret services weakens the state more than many a corruption scandal. It is worth emphasizing that while various real as well as completely fabricated shortcomings were alleged against the governments of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, such accusations, if I am not mistaken, were never made over those eight years. Even if PiS somehow contributed to damaging state institutions, it never went as far as the current authorities,“ he said.
Asked about the possible consequences of Monday’s Gazeta Wyborcza publication, he stated that “what should happen now is something every sane-thinking citizen knows perfectly well.“
“However, it will not happen. I think a very good commentary here may be the statement by Grzegorz Sroczyński, who commented on Donald Tusk’s words that vetoing the cryptocurrency bill is the biggest scandal since ’89. In his statement, Sroczyński cannot get over how much Donald Tusk considers his voters to be idiots,“ he recalled.
“To say that cryptocurrencies are a scandal the likes of which Poland has not seen since ’89 is just… someone who says such words must believe he is speaking to complete idiots. That is, Tusk believes his voters are not fully rational, remember nothing, and have the memory of a mayfly, a one-day insect,“ Grzegorz Sroczyński assessed on the Radio TOK FM podcast.
“What is crucial in this situation is precisely the fact that Tusk considers them idiots. And the fact that a substantial part of them, not reacting at all to such blatant situations as today’s, related to the medical data concerning Sławomir Cenckiewicz, only confirms how thoroughly the current prime minister’s voters have been bamboozled,“ Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz concluded.