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Poland’s new government raided NATO-affiliated counter-intelligence offices in the middle of the night

Poland woke up today (Dec. 18) to news that officials from the country’s new right-wing government tried to enter NATO-affiliated counter-intelligence offices in Warsaw after midnight, using a copied key and accompanied by military police, in order to replace the head of the office. “Perhaps in the entire history of NATO it hasn’t happened that a member state attacked a NATO facility,” Tomasz Siemoniak, former minister of defense, currently member of the political opposition, told reporters. The opposition, as well as pundits and journalists, are concerned that the move is part of a campaign by the new Law and Justice government to staff official posts with people loyal to the party.