He was speaking to the press after he was heard by a task force of Parliament's Home Affairs and National Security Committee investigating if POA had unlawfully tailed and tapped the phones of Malic and the other four journalists.
Malic said he was not a collateral victim because it had been established that there were photos showing only him and no one else.
He added the so-called Turek presentation explicitly stated that he and his colleagues had been in collusion with the chief of police and investigators from the Hague war crimes tribunal, working against national interests by writing articles alleging that Ante Gotovina, the runaway general wanted by the UN court, was in Croatia.
Malic underlined that he had never written anywhere that Gotovina was in Croatia.
"(Turek) considers the investigators from The Hague spies and the citizens who communicate with the investigators informers of those spies," Malic said, accusing the former POA chief of unlawfully tailing and tapping the investigators' phones and of publishing their photos and data in cooperation with Nacional weekly.
Malic said Turek had done that in the interest of the tribunal's runaway indictees and those assisting them. He added this was why Turek had been fired and that his report was a way to take revenge on journalists.
"Photos of the Hague tribunal's investigators are published only in Croatia and Nacional helped the fugitives get to the investigators, instead of helping the investigators get to the fugitives. If this is not proof that (Turek) is unprofessional, a complete turncoat and a spy of the lowest order, then I don't know what is."
Malic believes the surveillance of journalists was unlawful even if it was ordered from top state officials.
"Turek claims he did it on order... The former prime minister said he threw (Turek's) reports away. Interestingly, the incumbent prime minister says nothing about it. I thought all that was done at Turek's initiative, the initiative of the underworld and (Nacional editor in chief) Ivo Pukanic."
Asked if the other four aforementioned journalists had also been under POA surveillance, Malic said he did not wish to speculate until the end of the probe.
Asked if he trusted the parliamentary committee, he said he had the impression they were interested in the whole story.