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Scared of Leaks, Netanyahu Mulls Forcing Cabinet to Take Polygraphs
Cancels Cabinet Meeting, Promises Investigation
by Jason Ditz, at antiwar.com
Having seen months of war rhetoric imperiled
by recent US criticism, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
appears to be growing even more insular and distrustful of outsiders,
even turning on his own security cabinet today, announcing that he is
canceling meetings with them because
he doesn’t trust them not to leak the details of the meetings to
the press.
It
gets better.
Apparently Netanyahu is so convinced of the existence of a
mole inside his cabinet that he is discussing the possibility of asking
Shin Bet, the nation’s spy agency, to compel
the whole cabinet to take polygraph tests to prove their innocence.
Netanyahu declined to identify exactly which media story set off this
new round of concern, but speculation was that it was related to the
planning attack on Iran. Since Israel’s military actively censors their
media, it is also possible that whatever story it was didn’t even make
the papers.
The Israeli prime minister and other top officials on the hawkish
side of the Iran issue have regularly
lashed the media, both domestic and international, for reporting on the
large number of opponents to the war, saying it was a threat to
national security.
