How the Security Agencies want to interfere in presidential elections in Poland and should NATO be worried?
A revealing interview from the chief of an intelligence agency as the backdrop to an ongoing smear campaign against the conservative candidate.
During the last US election campaign, Donald Trump's supporters, as well as the candidate himself, openly spoke about the fact that Democrats and the Washington establishment are trying to weaponize parts of the U.S. government including law enforcement and the intelligence and security services (like the FBI) against him. In Poland, the presidential election campaign has also begun and the head of the SKW (our favorite, incompetent general Jarosław Stróżyk) in an interview for Polish nationwide daily economic and legal newspaper „Rzeczpospolita” admits openly, that political activity against opponents ensures government support for the Military Counterintelligence Service.
This sheds a very bright light on the ongoing defamation operation in Poland against the conservative candidate for President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, in which the media is certainly being used, but as many indicate, also the security services - making arrests or "gathering information" - are taking part. Is such politicization of the secret services a good idea in the face of the ongoing threat from Russia? Could NATO, with its standards towards the services of member states, lose trust in the services of the largest country on the eastern flank?
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