Former Polish prime minister Jarosław Kaczyński has told a special parliamentary committee that he believes Poland needed advanced spyware but he wasn't interested in how or against whom it was used
Former Polish prime minister Jarosław Kaczyński has told a special parliamentary committee that he believes Poland needed advanced spyware but he wasn't interested in how or against whom it was usedPoland's main opposition leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski is questioned by a parliamentary commission at the parliament building, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, March 15, 2024.
However, he later said the “use of Pegasus was in accordance with the law, there were no shortcomings, and in 99% it was used against criminals.” The revelations, first reported by The Associated Press in 2021, shocked Poland and added to the European Union’s concerns that the Law and Justice government was undermining the rule of law. They also hurt the credentials of Kaczyński's populist party. The Polish hacks are considered particularly egregious because they occurred in a EU member country.
When the proceedings continued, Kaczyński attacked his political rivals, the current government, saying that the commission's probe was a “political undertaking” aimed at proving an “illusionary notion that there was dictatorship in Poland” during his party's term in power. Current Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said the previous government used Pegasus illegally and targeted a “very long” list of victims. Poland's license for the use of Pegasus was discontinued in 2022, following the reports that the government used it against political opponents.
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