As many of you know, in the former communist countries have been created institutes to study the files of the communist intelligence services. In Romania, we have the National Council for the Study of the Former Communist Secret Service Archive (CNSAS). After 16 years from the Revolution against Ceausescu????????s regime, and the atrocious Securitate, we have today people who worked within the Securitate or closely cooperated with it, in key positions, in Parliament, Government, and the Presidential Institution.

Ticu Dumitrescu, the man who has initiated the law which established the CNSAS should have finally been elected as President of the institution. But, as many times in Romania, the fairness did not overcome the petty interests and the anxiety of the ones who were part of the Securitate.

Ziua daily wrote the following about Ticu Dumitrescu:

???????He would have been the moral guarantee that the use of the new and controversial law wouldn’t have turned into national shows or real bluff or even worse (???????).He is a man who spent long years in prison so that we can now be free. Under Stalinist and Communist terror, this man managed to keep his being unstained. Whenever needed, he is ready to fight for the nation’s good. He is not crazy for money, honors or power. The interior elections in CNSA have caused new political crisis within the PNL (the National Liberal Party) -PD (the Democrat Party) Alliance. The Liberals are accusing the Democrats of breaking the agreement to support Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu to become head of CNSAS. PD candidate Corneliu Turianu won presidency over CNSAS yesterday. Ticu Dumitrescu, author of the law to unveil the ex Secutitate, resigned right afterwards, invoking a ???????plot???????? coordinated by Emil Boc, with the knowledge of President Basescu. (…)???????

???????The law settling this institution is full of traps. A group of people will be in charge of the institution. Since the law allows for investigations on 1,300,000 files and on a part of the 100,000 files classified for the time being, of course there is a real risk that certain files should be picked and others ignored, for reasons related some parties’ political interests. A guarantor is needed for avoiding such situations. Ticu Dumitrescu would have been a moral guarantor. The law allows any person to demand research on somebody else’s past. There will be thousands of such requests, some of them really motivated. Others will be attempts to get even. And may others will be used in the battle for power, tools conceived to crash adversaries. A handful of people will have to make a difference between what is grounded and what is groundless, what is fair and what is unfair, what is well meaning and what is ill meaning. Neither cleverness nor common sense is enough. There is need of a moral guarantor.???????

Most of the mass media today is speaking about the upper hand of the services, and their abject plot to put their man as head of the CNSAS. Approximately 30 employees of the CNSAS have made a human chain in front of the Institution, as a sign of support for Ticu Dumitrescu. They (and the Liberal Party) are asking to repeat the elections. It is worrisome to realize how much power the intelligence services, especially the elements that were part of the Securitate have in what it should be today, a democratic, transparent Romania. More about the CNSAS activity (better said lack of it) till this moment, you can find here:
http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/showArticle3.cfm?article_id=12617&topicID=32

This issue has put under question the cohesiveness of the ruling Truth and Justice alliance. It looks like the two parties (PD and PNL) have different aims, and they use any opportunity they have to sabotage one another. The big loser here is the Romanian people, who for years???????? assists at these backstage dirty games, as a helpless spectator.