CD with top secret stolen IDF documents missing
"I did not succeed in changing many of the things I wanted to change during my military service. I thought exposing them would bring about change, and this is why it was important for me to publicize the IDF policies in the territories," Kamm said.
Following her hearings, Hammer said Kamm "did not think her actions jeopardized the state's security since she did not think the journalist will focus on the nuances of IDF operative activity but rather on the principles of policy underlying decisions by the major general and his staff officers. She turned to Israeli journalists because she believed the censor would not allow the publication of material whose publication carried security risks."
But the IDF is not guiltless either.
Tel Aviv District Court judge Zeev Hammer, who presided over hearings in Kamm's case already two months ago, was sharply critical of the military. "I was amazed by this inconceivable failure and faulty, careless information-security procedures," he said.
Presiding Judge Ze'ev Hammer wrote that "in order to inform the public of several aspects of IDF action in the West Bank, or to investigate war crimes in the West Bank, there is no need to gather and steal thousands of classified documents from the IDF which deal with the various military planning and action."
"Kam admitted during her investigation that her computer is not guarded and that she did not take interest into where the Haaretz reporter Uri Blau would store the documents or who would have access to them," Hammer added.
"She disrespected their [the document's] safekeeping and the importance and secrecy of the information," Hammer added.
[Kam] also said she had lost a disc onto which she had copied IDF computer presentations, and had no idea what happened to it.
Israel Matzav: CD with top secret stolen IDF documents missing
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