Ridiculous: Uri Blau gets four months community service for aggravated espionage
Haaretz reporter Uri Blau, who published hundreds of classified documents that he received from IDF jobnik Anat Kam, was sentenced to - get this - four months of community service on charges of 'aggravated espionage.' In July, Blau pleaded guilty to possessing classified information without intent to harm state security, after citing classified IDF documents stolen by Anat Kamm in reports accusing the IDF of defying a High Court ruling against targeted killings.I'm sure that sentence will weigh heavily on the next Haaretz reporter who wants to publish classified documents. Isn't it great how the branja take care of their own?
The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court convicted Blau of aggravated espionage.
The conviction came after Blau’s lawyers and the state reached a plea deal earlier in July, under which Blau agreed to plead guilty in return for a four-month sentence.
Blau obtained around 1,800 classified IDF documents from Kamm on a portable USB storage device.
Kamm, who stole the documents during her military service, is serving a four and a half year prison term following her conviction in February – also under a plea bargain – in which she pleaded guilty to gathering and storing classified military documents and transferring them to Blau.
Labels: Anat Kam, Haaretz, IDF, Uri Blau
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:48 PM
3 Comments:
Wow! Four months of community service...Such harsh, draconian sentencing. Good thing he wasn't also convicted of jaywalking while committing espionage.
he truly has mastered the Eurotrash look
The system is totally rotten, from the cops up to the Supreme Court judges.
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