‘Preventing the truth’: Levin slams ruling again striking down his pick to oversee Sde Teiman probe

Levin denounces the High Court of Justice ruling striking down his second pick for the ad-hoc role of overseeing the criminal investigation into the Sde Teiman video leak affair.

Levin accuses Justice Yael Willner, who wrote the unanimous decision, Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of a conspiracy against him, noting that Willner had headed the High Court panel that ordered the justice minister to hold a vote on appointing a new Supreme Court president in January after he had refused to do so for nearly 16 months.

Amit was appointed president in a vote in the Judicial Selection Committee, in line with the principle of seniority.

“Now the debt has been paid,” storms Levin.

“Amit and Willner are shooting down one after the other, the judges who were appointed to supervise the [Sde Teiman] investigation. They are preventing the truth from being revealed in connection to the involvement of Baharav-Miara and those under her authority in the military advocate general affair,” he continues, in reference to former military advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi’s admission that she leaked the surveillance video from the Sde Teiman military facility.

“This is the nucleus of control that repeatedly thwarts the clarifying of the truth. Those who call themselves gatekeepers and guardians of the law are actually guarding each other,” he says.