After today's second interview of Puljiz, council members declined to answer any questions by reporters, and it is still unknown when and what kind of conclusions this body, established by the parliament, will make on the case.
Puljiz told reporters that she did not want to reveal any details of today's interview as she would like to enable the council to finish its job. She reiterated that she had not done anything that might undermine state security and therefore the POA had no reason for interrogating her.
Puljiz said the council asked her if she would take a lie detector test, to which she answered in the affirmative.
Dragutin Lucic, head of the Croatian Journalists' Society, who attended the first part of today's council meeting, said later that it seemed that by seeking more details "the council is postponing conclusions".
"If the council and the parliamentary internal affairs and social security committee fail to take a position in the coming days, I will refer the entire case to the European Federation of Journalists," Lucic said.
Last week Puljiz asked the Croatian Council for the Supervision of Secret Services to investigate whether the Counter-Intelligence Agency (POA) was working in compliance with the law given that last month it interrogated her for almost five hours about a former aide of Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and her work as a journalist.
The reporter wrote in her letter to Vlatko Cvrtila, the chairman of this council, that on 5 October this year a POA agent, introducing himself as an employee of the Interior Ministry's organised crime department, phoned her and asked her to have a chat in a cafe. The agent arrived in the cafe, accompanied with another colleague, and both showed her their POA identity papers. According to her letter to Cvrtilia, both agents said they would like to talk about Mesic's former aide, Zeljko Bagic, who left the post in the Office of the President as he is believed to have helped runaway general Ante Gotovina, and about her work while she wrote for the Jutarnji List daily covering President Mesic's work.
After that they asked her to continue the conversation in the POA main offices, where the talks turned into a five-hour-long interrogation, she wrote in the letter. She also asserted that during the interrogation she was exposed to attempts of blackmailing and that some questions referred to her private life. She was also offered to cooperate with POA.