PO and PiS propose commissions to probe intelligence and media links

On Wednesday, Donald Tusk of PO announced that his party would submit a motion to set up a commission that would look into the involvement of the intelligence services in screening journalists from Rzeczpospolita at a time when Lech Kaczyński was Justice Minister. On Thursday, PiS submitted its own motion to the Sejm, which would encompass setting up a commission to look into any pathological relationships between intelligence and the media over the last 16 years. "The subject of the activity of the commission will not be the activities of journalists, but intelligence," said Przemysław Gosiewski, head of the PiS Club. "Neither me nor my brother ever constituted a threat to the freedom of the press," said the president Lech Kaczyński. The PiS commission would look into the screening of right wing politicians by the intelligence services and would most likely call in as a witness Jan Rokita who is to be a member of the commission proposed by PO. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A2, A4) M.M.