Polish military police raid Nato centre in Warsaw

[bobthedrummer]

Source: Julian Borger The Guardian

New rightwing government moves to take control of counterintelligence centre in attempt to consolidate grip on power

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/18/polish-military-police-raid-nato-centre-warsaw

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LBN, not John LeCarre. How many DUers know what counterintelligence is?

[Purveyor]

1. More from the article:

Polish military police have raided a Nato-affiliated counterintelligence centre in Warsaw in the latest of a series of moves by the country’s new rightwing government to consolidate its hold on power.

The raid took place at 1.30am on Friday at the temporary offices of the Nato Counter Intelligence Centre of Excellence. According to the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, senior aides of Antoni Macierewicz, the defence minister, accompanied by military police, entered the building using a duplicate key.

The centre’s night staff called the director, Col Krzysztof Dusza, but he was prevented from entering. A defence ministry spokesman said Dusza had not responded to an order to step down from the post.

Any such change of management was supposed to have been a matter of consultation with Nato and the Slovak government, which is a partner in the centre. Neither Nato nor Slovak officials could confirm whether any such consultation had taken place.

The former Polish defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak told reporters: “Nothing like this has happened in the history of Nato, that a member state attacks a Nato facility.”

[bobthedrummer]

3. Yep-"nothing like this has happened in the history of Nato..." n/t

[PeoViejo]

2. Someone stepped on their Keilbasa.

Methinks.

[bemildred]

4. No faith in the democratic process, eh?

My.

Nato Counter Intelligence Centre of Excellence", is that like the Trump center of Diplomacy?

So when will NATO be invading Poland to set things right?

[bananas]

5. judges sworn in in the middle of the night in violation of constitutional procedures

Since then, the new ruling party has moved fast to put loyalists in charge of the intelligence and security agencies, and had its nominees sworn in as constitutional court judges in the middle of the night in violation of constitutional procedure. The party is also preparing a bill that would open up senior civil service jobs to political appointments.

“It is becoming a sad rule these days that the Law and Justice party chooses night time to introduce important decisions. Poles have bad memories of such incidents in the past,” said Michal Kobosko, director of the Poland office of the Atlantic Council, a pro-Nato thinktank, in a reference to communist declaration of martial law in December 1981.

“Poles are starting to makes jokes about what might happen the next night. But this incident is not a joke. In 200 days from now Poland will be hosting a Nato summit in Warsaw. Polish authorities should be extremely careful before undertaking any moves which might surprise our Nato western allies.”

Why hasn't there been more news about this?

[bobthedrummer]

6. Polish journalist expelled from Russia in tit-for-tat move (AP via The Guardian 12-18-15) hmmm...

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/18/polish-journalist-expelled-russia-gazeta-wyborcza-rossiya-segodnya

No wonder Putin(FSB/KGB etc.) is not talking Turkey(NATO/Ottoman relic/etc), but real trash potty-mouth in domestic speeches lately imo. Then there are the leftovers of the Warsaw Pact that were turned...hmmm.

Counterintelligence-lol--that's what Robert Hansen, Aldrich Ames, Anna Chapman, Angleton, Hoover etc. were all about-now in the hands of the DoD privateers and IT techies blah,blah, blah. I don't feel safe when our new breed of fascist war criminals are putting US on "lists" to protect themselves.

Record every keystroke-it might be a "threat" to the Corporation Community from "radicalized domestic terrorists". Sure

NATO Welcomes its 24th Centre of Excellence (9-30-15 NATO)
http://www.act.nato.int/nato-welcomes-its-24th-centre-of-excellence

[pampango]

7. When the right wins elections, weird things happen. NATO and the EU are favorite targets of

the European right, these days.