US ambassador slams ruling party politician’s ‘absolute lie’
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Georgette Mosbacher, the US ambassador to Warsaw, took to Twitter to call out Beata Mazurek for comparing private TVN24 news channel to a Polish institution from the past with shadowy communist interests.
Hitting out at Mazurek, an MEP and former spokesperson of the ruling right-wing nationalist and populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, Mosbacher wrote “shame on you for perpetuating what you know is an absolute lie by suggesting that TVN is WSI. This is beneath a representative of the Polish people.”
Meanwhile, Zbigniew Ziobro, the justice minister, has threatened the media for reporting about a convicted pedophile pardoned by President Andrzej Duda in March.
TVN24, critical of the governing party, is a Polish-language 24-hour news channel launched in August 2001 and has been owned since July 2017 by US-based TV content provider Discovery.
Military Information Services (Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne, or WSI) was a common name for the Polish military intelligence and counter-intelligence agency. The agency was created in 1990 and liquidated in October 2006.
