As part of the plea bargain, which was agreed with the State Prosecutor’s Office on July 5, Blau agreed to admit to the charge of possessing secret information without intending to harm state security. “This is a precedent-setting prosecution of a journalist for doing his job,” one of his lawyers, Jack Hen, said at the time, adding that Blau should not have been charged and that all of his reports had been cleared by the military censor.