Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu's associates responded to the State Attorney's Office's statement was that the phone of State Witness Shlomo Filber had been hacked.
."We outright reject the allegations of the prosecution and the police. It is not possible for the investigators to interrogate the investigators without any one interrogating with a warning and without disclosing to the public the information obtained through illegal espionage," the statement began.
"When, according to the polls, 75% of the public do not believe the police, it is impossible for the police to investigate themselves and for the prosecutor's office to adopt the police's claims as if they were the word of G-d. The police have already been caught lying when they claimed just a few days ago that they did not commit any espionage. The shaking confession of the police now, that they spied "only" against Momo Filber and Iris Elovich is an earthquake.
"This seems to be the tip of the iceberg in the scope of police espionage against Israeli citizens. Therefore, only a state commission of inquiry will be able to uncover the extent of illegal police espionage."