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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: March 5, 2007 |
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IDF Home Front Command Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Gershon petitioned the High Court against Tuesday's Knesset debate on the State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss's findings on the management of the home front during last summer's Second Lebanon War, reported Haaretz.
Gershon, who stands at high risk of being injured by the report, has petitioned against it claiming that those named in it should have an opportunity to respond to criticisms.
The petition will be heard before the meeting, which is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Despite a request from Knesset legal advisor Nurit Elstein, State Comtroller Committee chairman MK Zevulun Orlev (NU-NRP) refused to postpone Tuesday's meeting.
According to Haaretz, "Yitzhak and several other senior officers who may be affected by the report argue that they have not been given the right of reply, and that publishing the interim report without providing those under scrutiny with the entire draft report runs contrary to common practice as well as violating the law regulating the state comptroller."
The petition also charges that Lindenstrauss's report could be a risk to national security because it wasn't first presented to military censorship. |
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