Sejm overhauls security and intelligence committee

The Sejm plans to appoint a new Commission for Special Forces (KSS) today after dismissing the KSS's current four members. Under a proposal presently under consideration in parliament, the KSS, which supervises military intelligence and counter-intelligence agencies as well as state security agencies, would include nine Sejm deputies. However, Samoobrona party leader Andrzej Lepper will no longer be a member of the Commission, despite attempts by the party to promote his candidacy. Parliament has so far been able to agree on eight candidates, including three from the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), and one each from the Polish Peasants Party (PSL), Law and Justice (PiS), Civic Platform (PO), Polish Families League (LPR) and the Labor Union (UP). The number of members in the KSS, as well as its political composition, have been a point of contention in parliament since the beginning of the current session. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) P.W.