(Jerusalem Post) Nathan Guttman - Israeli diplomatic sources said Thursday that Naor Gilon, the former political officer at the Israeli Embassy in Washington who was in contact with convicted Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin, had no idea that the information he got from Franklin was classified. "We are not responsible for what is said to us by American officials," said a diplomatic source. "Even if an American official did something he was not authorized to do, we had no way of knowing that." Mark Regev, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that "the Israel Embassy staff in Washington conduct themselves in a completely professional manner in accordance with all international conventions, and no one serious has made any allegations to the contrary." Court documentation showed that Israel was not accused of any wrongdoing.
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