Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak became the latest top official with legal problems when it was revealed that the attorney general and police are weighing criminal charges for disclosing confidential information to a pair of authors writing his biography. Israel’s penal code forbids providing information received in the context of his or her job to anyone not authorized to receive it. The law specifically applies to former ministers and others in senior positions providing information to ghost writers. The offense carries a possible three-year jail term. If the government decides to prosecute, it would be the first such case in the history of the state. After a portion of the tapes was played on Channel 2 television, officials negotiating with Russia to halt the sale of S-300 missiles to Iran were livid at the information revealed that compromised their talks with Moscow.