Culture minister demands probe into leak of cabinet comments

Culture Minister Miri Regev is asking the attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, to investigate the leak from yesterday’s cabinet meeting in which she called for political control over the new public broadcasting corporation.

“Publish the entire transcript of the cabinet meeting yesterday,” she demands in a letter to Mandelblit.

“Let the public judge my comments and the comments of my colleagues in full. Otherwise, launch an investigation into who maliciously leaked the partial information with the goal of misleading the public.”

The leaked comments, she says, “do not reflect my full views.”

In a separate Facebook comment, she says that any public broadcaster that doesn’t have direct government oversight risks being taken over by a “clique” that will prevent the airing of “a plurality of voices.”