“On many occasions, Editor-in-Chief Sakiewicz has pointed to very strange behavior of the devices he uses. If he was subjected to wiretapping, meaning operational control with a legal court authorization for the services to investigate a journalist, then this is a very interesting situation. It shows one thing: the services are still being used for political purposes. This is very alarming,” said Col. Mariusz Kozłowski, a retired officer of the Military Counterintelligence Service, on TV Republika.
Surveillance of Tomasz Sakiewicz
Bartosz Kownacki, a Law and Justice MP, said today that “there is no doubt that the editor-in-chief of TV Republika is being surveilled by the services, and that this is being used for a brutal, primitive political game.”
His statement was commented on the station by Col. Mariusz Kozłowski, a retired officer of the Military Counterintelligence Service.
“In my view, this is another psychological operation titled ‘Cryptocurrencies.’ It is connected on multiple levels with cryptocurrencies, with the current crisis of Russian intelligence activities on the territory of Poland. Cryptocurrencies are only an element of a political game. Linking this to the president of TV Republika and other media from the Free Speech Zone is a purely political maneuver aimed solely at silencing these media. The issue of surveillance, raised by MP Bartosz Kownacki, arose right after that overt-covert appearance by the prime minister. I don’t know whether it was mentioned there, but even if it wasn’t, Minister Kownacki’s assessment is quite interesting,”
he said.
He added that if MP Kownacki “does not doubt that the chairman, editor-in-chief Tomasz Sakiewicz, was surveilled, that means he has some information which he likely put together and arrived at that conclusion.”
“On many occasions, Editor-in-Chief Sakiewicz has pointed to very strange behavior of the devices he uses. If he was subjected to wiretapping, meaning operational control with a legal court authorization for the services to investigate a journalist, then this is a very interesting situation. It shows one thing: the services are still being used for political purposes. This is very alarming. Surveillance of journalists is illegal, this is stated clearly in the applicable acts of Polish law,”
he said.