Hostile remarks exchanged between PiS politicians and Internal Security chief

Following Law and Justice (PiS) Deputy Zbigniew Wassermann's critical remarks about the work of the Internal Security Agency, the head of the Agency, Andrzej Barcikowski openly accused the MP of making incompetent comments and recommended that he should learn some political savoir-vivre. This in turn spurred the leader of PiS Jaroslaw Kaczynski to call the open letter sent by Barcikowski to Wassermann an act of political impudence. The bone of contention is Wassermann's comment on the unconfirmed news about the apprehension of illegal emigrants Afghan on the border with Germany, who were carrying pictures of Warsaw, which could be interpreted as potential sites for a terrorist attack. According to Kaczynski, this is the first time the head of the agency has publicly scorned a Deputy working in the Sejm Commission supervising the Agency. "It is the commission that controls the Agency, and not the other way round. Barcikowski is trying to render this control impossible," continued the angered PiS leader. (Rzeczpospolita, A7) J.K.