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Subject: [Clips] IDF brass angered by phone logs check
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/751941.html
Haaretz - Israel News
Fri., August 18, 2006 Av 24, 5766
IDF brass angered by phone logs check
By Amos Harel
Senior Israel Defense Forces officers expressed dissatisfaction yesterday
with the announcement by Chief of Staff Dan Halutz that he had recently
instructed the Field Security Directorate at the General Staff to keep
track of their telephone conversations.
According to a report in Haaretz yesterday, Halutz instructed the Field
Security Directorate to provide him with the telephone logs of the
generals, their department heads and their secretaries, in order to
crosscheck whether they have had contacts with journalists.
Even though the chief of staff made it clear that there were no plans to
tap telephones and listen in on conversations, or adopt a policy of
punishing those who did talk with journalists without explicit permission,
his decision triggered sharp criticism.
According to the disgruntled officers , the chief of staff's action "stinks
of McCarthyism" and reflects "pressure on the part of the head of the army
who feels under siege and is focusing on minor details."
The same sources noted that there was hardly a senior officer who avoided
talking with journalists or who did so only with the explicit permission of
the IDF Spokesman's Office and the chief of staff. They also expressed
doubts that Halutz himself had abided by any such restrictions in his
previous senior positions.
There have been past Field Security investigations in which officers took
lie detection tests, but these were never in reaction to criticism of
General Staff conduct or management of a war.
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'