AG to Lieberman: Your leak claims won't be investigated
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein's deputy writes to foreign minister's attorney that 'leak phenomenon is invalid,' but announcing that public official is being investigated under warning is acceptable
The foreign minister was outraged and demanded an investigation, but the attorney general sides with the police and declines. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein ruled that there is no place to launch a criminal investigation of alleged leaks in the investigation of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman because notifying the public that a public official is being investigated under warning is acceptable.
Weinstein's senior-most assistant, Attorney Raz Nizri wrote to Attorney Yossi Kostelitz, the foreign minister's legal counsel, "The attorney general views leaks and publications from investigations as an invalid and problematic phenomenon that must be uprooted.
"However, it seems in this case that there is no place for a criminal investigation as you requested."
Lieberman accosted to police a day after serious suspicions against him in a new affair were revealed.
"This is the mother of all obstructions of justice," Lieberman said, referring to a police statement revealing that he is now being probed on suspicions that he received classified information from an investigation held against him from his associate, Israel's former ambassador to Belarus.
Lieberman demanded that the police commissioner himself be investigated for breaking the affair in the press.
