THE SYSTEMIC IMPUNITY OF THE SPECIAL SERVICES AND THE DISGRACE OF THE ONGOING SURVEILLANCE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | COMMENT OF THE DAY
PART I: THE SYSTEMIC IMPUNITY OF THE SPECIAL SERVICES AND THE DISGRACE OF THE ONGOING SURVEILLANCE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS
Date: 14 September 2026 | Author: Mieczysław Dzikowski – Editor-in-Chief of GAZETA ALGOOMNI
It is time for a hard reckoning with a pathology that undermines elementary trust in the institutions of the Republic. The investigative journalists Jan Piński and Tomasz Szwejgiert have for years been subjected to unprecedented, illegal operational activities. This practice was conducted with complete ruthlessness under the Law and Justice (PiS) government, under the supervision of Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik. What is most outrageous and scandalous, however, is that it continues under the current coalition, under the supervision of the current leadership of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration (MSWiA) and the coordinator of the special services.
The change of political power in Poland in December 2023 did not lead to a reckoning with, or an end to, the criminal practices within the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA). Instead of immediately eliminating the pathology, the current leadership of the prosecution service – headed by National Prosecutor Dariusz Korneluk – and the coordinating minister Tomasz Siemoniak are extending a protective umbrella over the discredited structures. The disclosure of documents proving that senior prosecutors, as well as court-appointed and privately retained defence lawyers, were registered and tasked by the CBA against a journalist on trial discredits the constitutional foundations of the Republic: the right to a fair trial, the independence of the defence and legal professional privilege.
Polish law provides for a maximum total period of operational surveillance of 18 months. Meanwhile, operational activities, wiretaps and observation of editors Piński and Szwejgiert and their families have been carried out without interruption for many years. The apparatus of state oppression ruthlessly strikes at the journalists' families, elderly relatives, children and associates, using illegal spyware cyberweapons (including Pegasus) and procedural harassment.
Position of the Editorial Board of Gazeta ALGOOMNI: Press freedom and the safety of journalists cannot be the subject of cynical political deals. We demand the immediate declassification of all applications for operational surveillance of journalists, criminal prosecution of the CBA officers involved and the immediate dismissal of prosecutors entangled in covert collaboration with the special services.
PART II: INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLE NO. 1 – THE SHOCKING BACKSTORY OF A CBA MEMO: A REGIONAL PROSECUTOR AND A DEFENCE LAWYER DOING THE SERVICES' BIDDING AGAINST TOMASZ SZWEJGIERT
(Based on material by: Tomasz Szwejgiert – "Z bańki", 14 September 2026)
Tomasz Szwejgiert has made public a secret internal memo of the CBA's Operations and Investigations Department (Special Operations Division in Lublin), reference number CBA DOS-WOS-00412/20/TW, drawn up on 25 November 2020. The document shows that on 23 November 2020, at the CBA contact premises "Fregata" at ul. Wyścigowa 43 in Lublin, a secret operational meeting took place with a personal source of information registered under number CBA 91274.
According to the disclosed information, registration number CBA 91274 belongs to prosecutor Cezary Maj – at the time a prosecutor at the regional prosecutor's office, and now the Regional Prosecutor in Lublin. The purpose of the meeting was to obtain and verify information concerning the investigation against Szwejgiert, with particular regard to his line of defence and the media and legal activities undertaken by editor Jan Piński. The prosecutor allegedly passed on to CBA officers sensitive information about the mood inside the Lublin prosecutor's office, verified queries to the prosecution service's IT systems and worked on penetrating the Warsaw journalistic community.
The memo furthermore explicitly confirms that Szwejgiert's then legal representative, attorney Dorota Emanuel, was registered as a CBA collaborator in Division C (references Z11402/2020 and Z11954/2020/K-20-D), which meant the services had complete control over the detained man's line of defence. The Legal Advisers' Court has already punished attorney Dorota Emanuel with a one-year ban on practising the profession, and the proceedings are heading towards her permanent expulsion from the profession. After prosecutor Anna Siwiec was removed, the case was taken over by prosecutor Agata Baryła, whom the journalist also accuses of close cooperation with the CBA and attempts to intimidate doctors. Szwejgiert spent 11 months in custody while his life was at risk, and for 7 years he has been refused a passport to travel for medical treatment, while the company that was the alleged subject of the VAT carousel was in fact a CBA front company, and the State Treasury did not suffer a single zloty of losses. Official criminal complaints have been filed against the prosecutors, and the case has been referred to the Prosecutor's Office in Białystok.
PART III: INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLE NO. 2 – A ROTTEN COMPROMISE WITH THE CBA MAFIA: WHO IN THE NATIONAL PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE AND THE GOVERNMENT IS PROTECTING THE PEOPLE OF THE OLD PIS NETWORK?
(Based on material by: Jan Piński and Tomasz Szwejgiert – the "Jan Piński" channel, 14 September 2026)
After the dismissal of prosecutor Jerzy Ziarkiewicz, who was associated with PiS, the new government appointed Cezary Maj as Regional Prosecutor in Lublin – a prosecutor working within the structures since 1986, with an extensive file at the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). Attention was drawn to an order of an IPN prosecutor dated 16 May 2024 (ref. PPLLU 194/24), which left the matter of Cezary Maj's lustration declaration without further action, coinciding with his appointment as head of the Lublin prosecutor's office.
In response to official press enquiries from editor Jan Piński, the spokesman of the National Prosecutor's Office, prosecutor Przemysław Nowak, replied with the absurd claim that the questions "give the impression of being made up", avoiding any substantive verification of the CBA reference numbers. Editor Piński put three hard questions to the National Prosecutor: whether the National Prosecutor's Office had verified the indicated reference numbers with the CBA, whether an investigation had been opened under Article 270 of the Criminal Code into the alleged forgery of the document, and why no one had initiated proceedings for defamation of the prosecutors, given that the material is considered fabricated.
Tomasz Szwejgiert has been officially recognised by Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar as a victim of surveillance with the Pegasus system, while in the case of Jan Piński – despite an identical operational application – the prosecution service denies the use of Pegasus, concealing the fact that his family and associates were surveilled. Absurd proceedings for a breach of the GDPR were launched against Jan Piński for publishing the address of a volunteer fire brigade station, whereas Szwejgiert previously had ammunition planted on him that came directly from CBA orders. The authors direct accusations squarely at minister Tomasz Siemoniak and Prime Minister Donald Tusk for lacking the courage to break up the criminal structures in the CBA, and announce the publication of a full list of corrupt journalists linked to the services.
30 PILLARS OF ALGOOMNI
FUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR THE RULE OF LAW, DEMOCRACY, EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW AND CIVIC SOVEREIGNTY
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THE SANCTITY OF EVERY VOTE: Every vote cast is the highest, direct and inviolable mandate of the sovereign in the state. No digital algorithm, no politicised electoral commission and no backroom party arrangement has the right to annul, falsify, distort or ignore the will of the citizens. Transparency, physical verifiability and public scrutiny of the electoral process at every stage are the inviolable foundation of the existence of the Republic.
A RECOUNT OF VOTES AND AN INSPECTION OF THE 2025 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: The absolute necessity of a comprehensive, formal inspection and a renewed, 100% open and publicly broadcast recount of all ballot papers from the 2025 presidential election. Assuming the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland in the shadow of procedural machinations, amid the paralysis of the supervisory bodies and the staggering passivity of the authorities of the time, was a violation of the constitutional order that requires full clarification of the material truth.
HOLDING PIS TO ACCOUNT – A RUTHLESS "ZERO OPTION": Full, uncompromising criminal, constitutional and financial liability for the systemic destruction of the legal order, the dismantling of the separation of powers and the unlawful transfers of public funds during the years of PiS rule. Rejection of any rotten compromises, political deals or lenient treatment – every scandal, embezzlement and act of lawlessness must be judged to the very bottom.
HOLDING THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT TO ACCOUNT FOR ITS OMISSIONS AND FAILURE TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS: A government that received a democratic mandate to restore the rule of law and which, in the name of conformism, political calculation and a quiet life, chose procrastination and the sin of omission, must bear unambiguous political responsibility. The lack of firm accountability will take its revenge at the ballot box and open the way to a constitutional relapse of anti-democratic forces.
THE COMPLETE ABOLITION OF IMMUNITIES: The definitive abolition of parliamentary, judicial, prosecutorial and official immunities. All citizens without exception must be 100% equal before the law and answer before the same common courts. The institution of immunity has been completely perverted, becoming a pathological shield protecting corruption, ordinary crime, abuse of power and the impunity of the elites.
A MANDATORY TWO-TERM LIMIT IN ALL BODIES: The introduction of a hard limit of a maximum of two terms (counted over a lifetime) for MPs, senators, city mayors, town mayors, village heads and the heads of state agencies and central offices. An end to a professional caste of politicians welded to their seats for decades and to the creation of entrenched bureaucratic clans preying on the property of citizens.
MANDATORY TOXICOLOGY TESTS FOR PERSONS IN THE HIGHEST OFFICES: Mandatory, independent and random laboratory tests (blood, urine, hair) carried out every 3 months for the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, ministers, deputy ministers, MPs, senators and heads of state institutions. Refusal to undergo testing or a positive result leads to immediate and automatic dismissal from office. Those who decide on the security and fate of the nation must be fully sane, responsible and free of chemical addictions.
A CITIZENS' CONSTITUTION WITH FIXED DEADLINES: The new Basic Law must be written directly by citizens and independent experts, not by politicians and law firms concerned with their own impunity. The absolute elimination of discretionary, elastic wording such as "without delay" or "within a reasonable time" and its replacement with precise calendar days, on pain of automatic loss of office by an official or judge if they are exceeded.
STRICT ORDER OF RECEIPT IN COURTS AND OFFICES: A statutory, absolute requirement to process and examine cases according to the exact date, minute and hour of their receipt by courts, prosecutors' offices and public administration offices. A final end to the "freezers" for cases inconvenient to the authorities, political favouritism in court calendars, the selection of cases at the dictate of networks and the deliberate protraction of proceedings until they become time-barred.
FULL DISCLOSURE OF THE LIST OF PERSONS ILLEGALLY SURVEILLED WITH DIGITAL SYSTEMS: Immediate publication of a full, open and complete register of all persons surveilled with cyberweapons (Pegasus, Hermes, Predator, Feng and related tools). Society and public figures have an inalienable right to know who was wiretapped, blackmailed, manipulated and operationally destroyed when strategic state and economic decisions were being taken.
FULL CRIMINAL, CIVIL AND FINANCIAL LIABILITY OF OFFICIALS, JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS: The introduction of full, personal criminal, civil and financial liability (with all present and future private assets) for the president, prime ministers, ministers, MPs, senators, village heads, mayors, councillors and state officials, and unconditionally for judges and prosecutors, for knowingly violating the Constitution, corruption, fabricating evidence, issuing unlawful decisions and judgments, gross omissions and errors causing losses to the State Treasury or harm to citizens. An end to hiding with impunity behind the robe, immunity or an official stamp – for lawlessness and damage, those in power, judges and prosecutors must pay out of their own pockets and answer criminally like every citizen.
A COMPLETE BAN ON HOLDING MULTIPLE POSTS AND A BAN ON SITTING IN STATE TREASURY COMPANIES: A radical, absolute ban on sitting on the management boards, supervisory boards and advisory bodies of State Treasury companies, municipal companies and government agencies for ministers, deputy ministers, senior state and local government officials, MPs, senators, village heads, town mayors, city mayors and councillors (together with a 5-year cooling-off period after leaving office). A final end to the pathology of party cronyism, nepotism and the milking of state assets by political appointees.
AN ABSOLUTE BAN ON CHANGING PARLIAMENTARY CLUBS AND COUNCIL GROUPS (A BAN ON POLITICAL DEFECTION): The mandate of an MP, senator and councillor is bound to the will of the voters expressed on the list of the electoral committee. Leaving a club, moving to another grouping or political corruption of a mandate results in the automatic expiry of the mandate and its replacement by the next person on the electoral list. An end to trading in citizens' votes in parliament and local government.
MANDATORY ATTENDANCE AT VOTES AND SITTINGS ON PAIN OF LOSING ONE'S MANDATE: The work of a parliamentarian and councillor is a firm official duty towards the sovereign. Unexcused absence from sittings of the Sejm, the Senate, committees or key votes exceeding 10% in a quarter results in automatic loss of the mandate by operation of law, without the right to severance pay or a parliamentary pension.
FULL TRANSPARENCY OF EXPENDITURE: ALLOWANCES, MILEAGE AND OFFICES SETTLED EXCLUSIVELY BY PAYMENT CARD: A complete ban on cash, flat-rate and advance settlements in parliamentary and local government activity. All office expenses, expert opinions, hotels, business trips and mileage must be paid exclusively with a personal official card linked to a public online register of expenditure available to every citizen in real time. Every attempt to fiddle a mileage claim means an immediate prosecutor.
AN END TO "SACRED COWS": THE SAME LAW FOR POLITICIANS, JUDGES, PROSECUTORS, THE SERVICES AND JOURNALISTS: Equal law for all without caste privileges. The abolition of separate procedures, immunities, secret disciplinary courts and networks protecting politicians, prosecutors, judges, special services officers and the journalists linked to them. Every crime, act of obstruction, fabrication of operational material or paid media protection will be tried in open proceedings before a jury.
SYSTEMIC PROTECTION AND STRICT COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT OF FORMER SPECIAL SERVICES OFFICERS: Special services officers (AW, ABW, SKW, SWW, CBA) with knowledge of state secrets must not be abandoned on the open market as easy prey for foreign intelligence services and criminal groups. The introduction of a 10-year ban on working for foreign entities and in sensitive sectors (cryptocurrencies, finance, gambling), combined with a decent state analytical salary and permanent counterintelligence protection.
COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY AND BLOCKING THE INFILTRATION OF THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS: Every draft law, regulation and amendment must have a public digital register of its authors by full name, together with a lobbying trail. An absolute ban on laws being written by external law firms and lobbyists linked to foreign capital. Any attempts to block anti-corruption and anti-money-laundering provisions to be treated as diplomatic treason.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE AND AN END TO FUNDING RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES FROM THE BUDGET: The immediate abolition of the Church Fund, the taxation of the income of religious associations on general terms and an absolute ban on transferring State Treasury and local government property for next to nothing. Religious associations may be financed only from the voluntary tax allocations of the faithful (a voluntary church tax).
A CITIZENS' VETO AND A BINDING REFERENDUM WITHOUT A TURNOUT THRESHOLD: Restoring real power to the sovereign: a motion supported by 500,000 citizens' signatures obliges the Sejm to call a nationwide referendum, the result of which is absolutely binding on the state authorities, with no turnout threshold applicable. The executive and legislative authorities are prohibited from overriding the will of the nation expressed in a referendum.
DIGITAL TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: ONLY REAL IDENTITIES IN PUBLIC SPACE AND ON THE INTERNET: A requirement to verify identity and use real personal data when registering, logging in, publishing articles, running newspapers, and operating social media and app accounts. An end to troll farms, bots, fake identities and organised disinformation – every participant in public debate and on digital platforms must bear full, personal legal responsibility for the content they publish.
TOTAL TRANSPARENCY OF SERVICE: BODY-WORN CAMERAS FOR OFFICIALS AND UNIFORMED SERVICES: An absolute obligation to record, in sound and vision, all official acts performed by state officials, customs officers, police officers and officers of all uniformed and special services using permanently active body-worn cameras. The recording constitutes hard evidence in disciplinary and criminal proceedings, eliminating violence, abuse of power, extortion and the fabrication of charges.
DIRECT ELECTION AND RECALL OF JUDGES, PROSECUTORS AND MINISTERS: The introduction of universal, direct civic elections and a mechanism allowing the sovereign to recall judges, prosecutors, senior officials, ministers and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. The final elimination of the party-political key for appointments, nepotism and corrupt backroom promotions in favour of direct verification and a mandate of trust from citizens.
COMPLETE DECLASSIFICATION OF THE ARCHIVES: OPEN ACCESS TO THE FILES OF THE IPN AND THE COMMUNIST-ERA SERVICES: The immediate, one-hundred-per-cent opening and full publication of all archival material, personal and operational files of the IPN and of the communist special services (SB, WSW, Directorate II of the General Staff). The abolition of the so-called restricted collections, in order to definitively eliminate the possibility of blackmail, manipulation of the political scene, building intelligence "hooks" and concealing the past of decision-makers.
A PUBLIC LIST OF ILLEGAL SECRET COLLABORATORS IN PROFESSIONS OF PUBLIC TRUST: The unconditional publication of a complete register of persons practising professions of public trust (judges, prosecutors, doctors, advocates, legal advisers, journalists) who were illegally recruited or entered into covert collaboration with the special services, including the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA). Secret entanglement within the structures of the justice system, the media and healthcare poses a direct threat to the rule of law and civil liberties.
MODERN, DEFENCE-ORIENTED EDUCATION: REPLACING RELIGION WITH DEFENCE TRAINING, AI AND PROGRAMMING: The definitive withdrawal of religious instruction from public schools and its replacement with subjects of key civilisational and strategic importance: practical defence training and rescue skills, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced programming and modern computer science. Polish young people must acquire the competences of the future and hard skills to defend the country, not dogmatic indoctrination at the taxpayer's expense.
CONSTITUTIONAL ELECTORAL AND ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN SAFEGUARDS: The implementation of hard, systemic control mechanisms and procedures that make any repeat of rigged elections (including the 2025 presidential election) impossible and eliminate the precedents of breaches of the law and the Constitution known from periods of authoritarian practices by the centres of executive power (including practices from the time of Andrzej Duda and Karol Nawrocki). Every attempt to unlawfully manipulate the electoral process or stretch prerogatives must be met with an automatic, absolute blocking of the action and the immediate criminal prosecution of the perpetrators.
TOTAL TRANSPARENCY OF PAY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR, FOUNDATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS: The introduction of absolute transparency of all salaries, bonuses, awards and allowances received by politicians, state and local government officials and members of the governing bodies of foundations and associations that use public funds or public collections. A nationwide real-time online register of pay will definitively eliminate hidden corruption, the siphoning of money and the creation of parasitic political troughs.
ASSET DECLARATIONS WITHOUT EXEMPTIONS – 100% PUBLIC AND COMPLETED ELECTRONICALLY: The complete abolition of confidentiality clauses and transparency exemptions in the asset declarations of persons holding public office (including judges, prosecutors, parliamentarians and ministers). An absolute obligation to complete declarations exclusively in a standardised electronic format (an end to deliberately illegible handwritten scrawl), together with a precise market valuation of real estate, cryptocurrencies, company shares and assets transferred to spouses and relatives.
THE COMPLETE ANNULMENT OF THE DECISIONS OF MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI'S TWO-WEEK GOVERNMENT OF 2023: The statutory declaration as null and void by operation of law (ex tunc) of all financial and personnel decisions, resolutions, appointments, grants and asset transfers made by the so-called two-week government of Mateusz Morawiecki appointed in November 2023. This sham cabinet without a parliamentary majority served solely to entrench party sinecures, push through multi-million grants for foundations linked to the outgoing government and siphon off public funds – all these acts must be immediately cancelled and the funds recovered.