Miklenic believes that Croatian media nowadays are not showing any interest in the work of the latter services although they are not only politically and ideologically, but also in terms of interest, in direct conflict with Croatia's national interests.
Croatian national interests are not defined and there is no national consensus on them. It this were the case, intelligence services would not be politically misused and they would have to act in line with the Constitution, the editorial reads.
Warning that Croatian citizens, especially those who also lived under the communist regime, were rightfully sensitive about the work of intelligence services, Miklenic also states that "a number of prominent Croats, even an entire family with an underage child, were executed in operations by Yugoslav communist intelligence services outside the territory of Croatia and the former federation, for which nobody was punished".
Miklenic goes on to say that many Croatian citizens are worried about the activities of foreign agents who he says often work against Croatian national interests, the more so as they influence public opinion in Croatia with articles and broadcasts.
"It is understandable that Croatian media that make space for them cannot be critical towards such obvious cases of abuse," reads the editorial.