David Milstein, a senior advisor to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, used his position to quash reports on Israeli activities in the West Bank and present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light to Washington, according to the New York Times, in a report published by the Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

The report is based on 12 anonymous sources who work or interact with Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington. Huckabee refuted the report and criticized the absence of any named source.