""Deep Throat" (Mark Pelt, the deputy head of the FBI) comes to Woodward and Bernstein. He wants to tell them about the direction of the FBI's investigation into Watergate, but the Washington Post reporters tell him, "Listen, that's not appropriate, we're a little busy right now, and besides, maybe you came to set us up.".
Manny Mazuz and the rest of the Justice Ministry's top brass kept this story to themselves for almost 4 years. It wasn't leaked either. The police certainly had no interest in leaking it, but since the verdict – the question has become even more acute: Why didn't the police actually want to sign a deal with Shmuel Dechner? Why did they recommend as one body, the entire top brass of the police (there was one righteous man in Sodom), not to advance the matter, not to investigate it?
The greatest and most significant witness in the history of the state has arrived at the police station. There was no one like him before him, and it is doubtful that there will be anyone like him after him. He is a forger, a swindler, a liar and a bribe-giver, but also a smart man, with a phenomenal memory, documented and desperate. The police sit, listen, for hours on end, and then come to a hearing with the Attorney General, Meni Mazuz, and recommend in one voice – not to sign with him.
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It's possible that he's a Trojan horse, that he wants to screw up the first trial of Torres and Talansky for us, besides, we don't have that many resources for such an investigation (did you hear? The police wanted to give up on the biggest corruption case in the country's history because they don't have the resources to investigate it) and this whole thing is terribly complicated, let's give it up. The more I think about it, the less I understand. There is no more stark evidence of the weakness of our police than this story. Three months since it was first told and summarized by Meni Mazuz to "Makor" and still no one from the police has stood up to answer him.
I have since heard this story from more people who attended the meeting and raised the frightening theory that the police did not want to investigate for reasons that are completely irrelevant. In the meantime, I have not seen the police officers celebrating their victory in the television studios (some of them really deserve it, the investigators and officers of the Yaha (Iris Barak, for example) did an outstanding job in this case), but if they come, let us not forget to ask them about that unbelievable episode at the beginning and what would have happened if Meni Mazuz had not knocked on the table and informed them that he expected a change of position within a few hours.
