Bar-On: Katsav blackmail 'much ado about nothing'

Interior Minister Roni Bar-On expressed support for President Moshe Katsav on Sunday, in the latter's sexual harassment blackmail case, saying that the [media] fuss was "much ado about nothing." Meanwhile, the Movement for Quality Government asked Attorney General Menahem Mazuz to investigate the charges, Army Radio reported. A former employee of Katsav's complained over the weekend that the president had sexually harassed her, though she had not filed a suit against him.