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To make a long story shorter, Kam is a 23-year-old Israeli journalist who allegedly procured confidential documents while she worked in an Israeli Army general’s office during her mandatory military service. The documents revealed that in 2007, Israeli Army forces assassinated a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member in direct contravention of a Supreme Court order that banned the killing of wanted militants if there was a reasonable chance to arrest them first. Two top Israeli military officials, former Central Command Chief Major General Yair Naveh, Operations Directorate Head Major General Tal Russo, and Lt. Gen. Gabi AshkeNAZI who oversaw the Gaza assault of 2008 and 09, are said to have been incriminated in the documents.

Seeking to suppress discussion of the scandal, Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, secured a gag order on the media from an apparent rubber stamp judge who had spent almost her entire career in military courts. The order, issued in January, forbade journalists and bloggers in Israel not only from reporting on the details of Kam’s prosecution, but from even acknowledging that she had been detained. A reporter I spoke to was publishing stories on the scandal under an anonymous byline. The New York Times has done the same, meaning even Ethan Bronner might be afraid of the Shin Bet.

The gag order was leaked tonight on the blog of Richard Silverstein. According to Israel’s Channel 10, its contents had been kept from secret at the personal insistence of Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin — even the Speaker of the Knesset was not allowed to see it.

Besides a few vigilant Israeli bloggers, a Facebook page devoted to Kam’s case is hosting what blogger Didi Remez calls “a de facto civil disobedience campaign.”

www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2010/04/04/what-kam-case-says-ab
out-sorry-state-of-msm-critical-role-of-blogs-in-breaking-national-security-stories/

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Anat Kamm Indictment (English)
http://reider.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/rolling-anat-kamm-thread-indict
ment-english/

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