Source: Since 8 AM all known sources are covering this

As the CIA used to say, knowledge is the greatest weapon. Tomorrow Mr Konrad Kornatowski, the Chief Commandant of Police was scheduled to testify in front of the parliamentary committee for special services. He was among 10 best informed people in Poland, and his testimony was supposed to confirm or negate Janusz Kaczmarek’s accuses for the government of illegal surveillance (including tapping phones, checking billings, following, etc.) and of using the prosecutor’s office for fighting political opponents in general. Given his extensive knowledge everyone was expecting the same kind of information as Kaczmarek provided: dates, facts, whom to interrogate and which documents to check, to confirm his testimony. Unfortunately, he can now only testify in front of the prosecutor - today Kornatowski, Kaczmarek as well as Jaromir Netzel (the head of PZU - National Insurance Company) were arrested by ABW (Internal Security Agency, a counterpart of American NSA). All opposition politicians call this a coup. We in PolishPolitics.com can only repeat that under this government we no longer believe in coincidences. So the scenario for the following days is as follows: all three men will be arrested for 3 months, they will not be allowed to testify in front of the parliamentary committee (though it is possible Marek Dochnal, connected to SLD was interrogated by such committee after he was arrested), Mr Ziobro will organize a press conference and cry out loud how great criminals Kornatowski, Kaczmarek and Netzel are, Mr Jarosław Kaczyński will organize another press conference where he will say exactly the same, and both of them will swear to God that the prosecutor’s office is totally independent from them…

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