Opposition parties claim state security services are no longer neutral

The government should sack the directors of the state security agencies as these services have become politicized, say opposition leaders. Representatives from the Law and Justice party, the Polish Family League and Civic Platform joined forces to call on Prime Minister Leszek Miller to dismissed them as soon as possible. The opposition maintains that Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, the director of the State Intelligence Agency (AW) and the director of the Internal Security Agency (ABW), Andrzej Barcikowski, are individuals who have politicized these delicate services. As a poof, they point out that the Andrzej Derlatka, who has been nominated as deputy director of one agency, was previously a senior official in the communist security service. Opposition politicians believe that their further participation in the parliamentary security commission is pointless as its words are not heeded and are now threatening to boycott it. "I was appointed by the Prime Minister and only he can recall me," the ABW director told journalists. (Zycie, p. 5) A.L.