A-G warns cabinet secretary of criminal probe of leaks from meetings
The attorney-general said that all those present at meetings must sign a commitment not to provide access to the media.
By YONAH JEREMY BOBATTORNEY-GENERAL Avichai Mandelblit has been one of the main players, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman, in the current political stalemate.(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit sent a letter Wednesday night to Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman that someone in the closed cabinet meetings was facilitating real-time access to the meetings' developments to a member of the media and that if this continued he would open a criminal probe.Mandelblit noted that Braverman himself had addressed the issue with those present at a cabinet meeting after repeated violations and that the media personality had taunted Braverman in real-time on social media that he would maintain his access.The attorney-general said that all those present at meetings must sign a commitment not to provide access to the media and that a criminal probe would be inevitable if the issue did not improve.
