“On Wednesday (March 13, 2024) I received information about the activities of the Internal Security Service at the headquarters of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office, consisting of the confiscation of computers. Because of the way they are carried out, they are an ‘open secret’ among employees and prosecutors of Postępu 3 in Warsaw. If it is true that it concerns the use of a program known to the public under the name ‘Hermes’, then we are dealing with an incredible scandal,” Deputy Attorney General Prosecutor Michał Ostrowski emphasized in his statement .
As I said in my previous statement, this program was used legally and was an OSINT (open-source intelligence) tool, i.e. the so-called white intelligence. Knowledge of its existence was common among the prosecutor’s office. I can mention here last year’s online training “Hermes”, which was available to all prosecutors, evaluators, trainees and assistant prosecutors. I also recall that among the prosecutors who submitted requests to use the program in the course of the proceedings for the purpose of criminal analysis and thus to speed up the proceedings, were, among others: members of the Lex Super Omnia prosecutors’ association . A total of approximately several hundred analyzes have been carried out with the program
– noted prosecutor Ostrowski.
The campaign conducted using certain media and aimed at making the public believe that illegal activities have been carried out in the Public Prosecutor’s Office using “Hermes”, is a planned disinformation campaign, which is the point of entering criminal analysis in all units of the public prosecutor’s office. a few years ago. The fact that the secret service was involved evokes the worst associations with provocations from the period of the Polish People’s Republic
– he said.
It should be emphasized that the activities of the services are undoubtedly carried out with the knowledge and even the inspiration of people who usurp power within the public prosecutor’s office. These appointees of the Attorney General, who is not an expert in the functioning of the public prosecutor’s office, consistently involve him in subsequent situations that will sooner or later have to be subjected to a legal assessment.
– wrote prosecutor Ostrowski.
The immediate effect of excluding the use of “Hermes”, which seems to be happening, will be to slow down the procedures in which this program could be used efficiently. It is symbolic that the people who accused the previous management of the Public Prosecution Service of having purchased a supposedly too expensive instrument, themselves ensured that it was disabled.
– he emphasized.
This is what Homeland Security is doing during the war on the eastern border… This madness can be stopped in an instant. The person who can do this is my superior, Attorney General Adam Bodnar
– he pointed out.
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Source: wPolityce