Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal says his report last month on the Shin Bet security service’s covert investigation into the possible infiltration of Kahanist elements into the Israel Police embarrassed Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.
After their probes into the police didn’t reveal anything, they decided to use the tools at their disposal “to hunt the person who exposed them, and so they threw him into custody without a lawyer,” Segal writes on X.
“Why? What is the disturbance? How is it possible to disrupt an investigation that ended with nothing? Did it reveal Shin Bet sources? When there are no sources, it is difficult to locate them,” Segal writes.
“In a climate where appearances and press freedom are cared about, even if only barely, one does not hunt sources for personal reasons,” he writes.
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