If there are more than the usual typos in today’s entry it’s because I am looking over my shoulder more than usual. Here’s waht I read in last week’s admirably well-informed Polityka (they correctly predicted that businessman Ryszard Krauze was in the sights of the authorities):

In fact, a (probably) legal tap was put on the phone of a private detective from Gdańsk. Several journalists, including myself [Piotr Pytlakowski] called him around that time because he had a lot of behind the scenes information concerning certain stock market operations and the secrets of well-known people from the world of business and politics.

In this way our telephone calls found themselves in the circle of suspicion and were automatically subject to operational tapping. Such phonetaps can be laid on for 5 days without court approval. Later, they are supposed to be erased and the person informed that his or her conversations were recorded – we, of course, were not informed.

“The circle of suspicion” is a phrase which has found favour with the ruling regime of late due to its usefulness in vaguely smearing innocent people. There’s more, if you can stomach it.