Siemiątkowski tries to jack in job as spy chief but Miller says no way

Siemiątkowski stated that politically motivated attacks on him "disrupt the political neutrality of the special forces." However, Prime Minister Leszek Miller rejected his resignation, with a government spokesperson, Marcin Kaszuba, announcing that such "a personnel change at the Intelligence Agency could detrimentally effect state security." Nevertheless, the statement does not mean the end of Siemiątkowski's troubles, as on Tuesday the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that a serving deputy cannot be the head of the Intelligence Agency. Moreover, the Tribunal added that several hundred State Security Office (UOP) operatives who were fired during the creation of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) are entitled to return to work and claim compensation. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A3; Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 3) E.B.