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June 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Polish prosecutors are building a legal case that may lead to criminal charges against the country’s ex-spy chief and even former top political officials, The Los Angeles Times reports in its Friday edition.
“Evidence that a foreign power was allowed to conduct illicit activities on Polish soil has deeply shaken many Poles’ faith in the United States and in Poland’s sense of itself as a successful democracy born from the ashes of the Cold War,” says the report.
The prosecutors’ investigation, according to the report, centers on a Polish military base that reportedly hosted a CIA “black site,” where foreign suspects were subjected to globally banned brutal interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, during 2002 and 2003.
Many Poles now angrily believe the US, which they formerly thanked for helping them against communism, “took advantage of their gratitude, loyalty and eagerness to please by setting up a torture site that it would never have allowed within its own borders,” reports the US daily.
Poland is not the only nation in Europe where the US operated a secret detention facility with “at least tacit permission from somewhere within the host government,” the report says.
Black sites, it adds, are also believed to have existed in Romania and Lithuania, “two other developing democracies,” as well as in despotic US-sponsored countries in North Africa and Asia. However, Poland is alone among the European states in launching a formal probe into the matter.
“The reputation of Poland is at stake, “President Bronislaw Komorowski declared in March. “Certainly this is a sensitive and touchy issue, and possibly painful for the Polish state, but it is the task of the legal apparatus to clarify this.”
The finger of blame, the report says, is pointed at Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, the former chief of Poland’s intelligence service. He acknowledged several months ago being officially named by prosecutors as the subject of their investigation, while refusing to elaborate but noting only that he is disappointed that his nation “has now turned against him.”
Polish media reports say Siemiatkowski may likely face charges of overstepping his authority and encouraging torture by the American spy agency to set up a detention facility at Stare Kiejkuty in a remote corner of the country.
However, Adam Bodnar of the Warsaw-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights says it is difficult to believe that Siemiatkowski acted on his own in an operation that required coordination among the country’s intelligence service, the military and the border control agency.
Others, the report notes, fear negative repercussions for Poland’s relationship with “its most valued ally, the US, which has reportedly refused to turn over documents to Polish prosecutors.”
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