The issue of the security clearance of the head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), Sławomir Cenckiewicz, will be reconsidered, admitted the head of the Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW), Brig. Gen. Jarosław Stróżyk, following Wednesday’s ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court. “I have a plan, I have an idea,” replied Prof. Sławomir Cenckiewicz, head of the National Security Bureau.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Administrative Court dismissed the cassation appeals filed by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister against the rulings of the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw, which had overturned the decision to revoke the security clearance of the current head of the BBN, Sławomir Cenckiewicz, granting him access to classified information. The court did not grant Cenckiewicz’s motion to discontinue the control security screening procedure, leaving that decision to the competent authority.
Brig commented on the ruling of the Supreme Administrative Court. Gen. Jarosław Stróżyk, head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, which had conducted the proceedings concerning Cenckiewicz’s clearance. As he stated, the court’s ruling “means that we must comply with the judgment of the Voivodeship Administrative Court,” which overturned the SKW’s decision to revoke the BBN head’s clearance.
At the same time, the head of the SKW emphasized that the ruling did not invalidate but rather overturned the SKW’s decision in Cenckiewicz’s case, “which means that there is room to revisit the matter.” Accordingly, as Stróżyk declared, the SKW will re-examine the case of the head of the BBN as soon as the court returns the case files to the service.
The head of the National Security Bureau responded to these remarks.
“Super-Judge Stróżyk!”
Cenckiewicz mocked the head of the SKW.
He spoke further about the matter on Polsat News.
“I will not pursue any further legal avenues regarding my clearance. No, because I have won this case,”
Cenckiewicz said.
“For eight months now, this situation has been hindering the functioning of the National Security Bureau and indirectly the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland. As head of the BBN, I should be a member of the College for Special Services. I am not,” he continued, when asked whether this might impede his work due to documents he cannot access.
“It may. I don’t know. We will see. We will discuss it. I have a plan; I have an idea. We have arranged a meeting with the President, we will see what we do,” he added when pressed on whether “perhaps resignation is necessary.”
Asked when the plan would materialize, he replied: “I think we need to act here and now.”