Bronislaw Geremek defies the Polish government

Rafał Ziemkiewicz can't understand Bronislav Geremek's refusal to have his past investigated a second time, because Ziemkiewicz argues, this would not simply be a repetition of the proceeding in 2004: "The new lustration law defines the activities of former unofficial collaborators more precisely. Under the previous law you could have signed a formal obligation to write unofficial reports and have received payment for doing so, yet none of this was regarded as unofficial collaboration because a court would first have to prove that the denunciations in question had harmed somebody. The current lustration law distinguishes much more precisely between the many different forms of collaboration with the former secret police (SB), both in areas of intelligence and counter-intelligence. The old statement could be 'no', and the new one 'yes' and this wouldn't necessarily be a contradiction."

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