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Olmert: I'll take polygraph to prove I didn't leak probe info
By Ofra Edelman, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel, Ehud Olmert 

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his legal team relayed on Wednesday that they are willing to undergo a polygraph test to prove that they did not leak material
from the graft probe against the premier dubbed the "envelopes affair."

Olmert's attorney, Eli Zohar, has handed over to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz a list of 26 people who were exposed to the investigation's material, in response to a request to do so by Mazuz. The attorney general has also asked for a similar list from the attorney representing Shula Zaken, the prime minister's former bureau chief.
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The probe is into suspicions that Olmert illicitly received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Jewish American millionaire Morris Talansky over the course of 15 years.

Mazuz's move came after Olmert lodged a complaint with him on Monday about the leaks. On the prime minister's behalf, Zohar requested Mazuz promptly launch a probe to find out who gave the media transcripts of Olmert's police questioning.

"The leaks from the prime minister's investigation have crossed all boundaries," Zohar wrote.

The State Comptroller's Office on Wednesday reportedly began a comprehensive investigation into the use of wiretaps by interviewing Chief Superintendent Gadi Siso, head of the wiretapping department at national police headquarters.

The cabinet had asked the comptroller to look into the use of wiretaps in criminal investigations, including the tactics employed by police and prosecutors and the use made of the information collected, in view of complaints that had been raised on this issue in recent years. The appeal to the comptroller was a compromise agreed on after the cabinet rejected Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann's proposal to set up a governmental inquiry committee specifically on the police and prosecution's concealment of wiretaps during the trial of Friedmann's predecessor, Haim Ramon.

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      2.   Once upon a time . . . 02:13  |  Mark Lincoln 24/07/08
      3.   Olly:"I`ll take polygraph to prove I didn`t leak probe info" 06:56  |  Esther 24/07/08
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      7.   Anything to divert Attention Mr. Olmert 10:04  |  justiceforall 24/07/08
      8.   I`ll take polygraph to prove I didn`t leak probe info 10:55  |  David 24/07/08
      9.   He did it not me 11:20  |  Dufus 24/07/08
      10.   Polygraph TV show 12:02  |  Charly Bukowksy 24/07/08
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      12.   Of course Olmert and his lawyers didn`t do it .. 12:10  |  redmike 24/07/08
      13.   To redmike # 8 Seeing is believing..... 12:43  |  Dagma 24/07/08
      14.   It is all so TRANSPARENT....... 12:47  |  Dagma 24/07/08
      15.   Forget the Pol;ygraph Test 12:57  |  Dagma 24/07/08
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      17.   TAKE POLYGRAPH ABT. THE ENVELOPES!!! 14:57  |  Robert 24/07/08
      18.   DON`T LET HIM TAKE A POLYGRAPH;HE`S TOO ASTUTE ON LYING;JUST AS 18:19  |  glenna 24/07/08
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