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...meeting with Kahan took place in a conference room in the offices of Prime Minister Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 6. Time Inc. was represented by Haim Zadok, a former Israeli Minister of Justice; Sharon was represented by Dov Weisglass, a Tel Aviv lawyer. At the outset of the examination, Zadok learned that he would not be permitted to see testimony gathered by the commission's investigators, who had the power to subpoena witnesses and require them to testify...
Meanwhile, Time Inc. General Counsel William Guttman, who had flown to Israel to await the outcome of the Kahan meeting, was informed that he too must sign a secrecy agreement. Only after Guttman did so was he told that the Israeli Attorney General had decided to make public Kahan's answers, which concluded that Appendix B and other documents examined did not contain "any evidence or suggestion" that Sharon had discussed revenge with the Phalangists. The government, however, refused to release Zadok's letter of reservations. As far as Time Inc. was concerned, this was a clear breach...
Barr then reviewed the Kahan report in detail, citing passages that buttressed TIME's contention that Sharon had discussed revenge with the Phalangists. The Kahan report disputed key points of Sharon's testimony before the commission, Barr said. Sharon, for example, contended that Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan ordered the Phalangists into the camps; the report concluded that Sharon also made the decision. Contrary to the impression Sharon tried to create during the trial, the former Defense Minister had been warned of the consequences of his decision even as the Phalangists were preparing to enter the camps. In one instance...
...paragraph knowing it to be false, or with reckless disregard for whether it was false. He insisted that staff members had worked on the story in good faith. Halevy had several sources for his account of Sharon's talks with the Phalangists, the lawyer argued. After reading the Kahan report, "he believed those sources were correct." As for the other TIME journalists who relied on Halevy's reporting, Barr said, they had read the Kahan report and trusted Halevy completely...
...Barr concluded. "It reaches out beyond sense and reason." Sharon brought this lawsuit, Barr charged, because "he had to fight somebody. He couldn't sue the commission. It already had gone out of business. He picked out this one paragraph and said, 'This is the way to attack the Kahan commission . . . and that's the way I'm going to wash my hands clean of this terrible, terrible mess...