and this will help.

They sold the info to the Soviets.


Israel needs to have BIBI come crawling with an apology to the United States.

The information was not sold to the Soviets. Even the prosecutors who told huge lies at trial did not go that far.

All aid to Israel should be cut off. When their electorate smartens up and stops electing their own versions of Donald Trump, then they can come back and request to get back in our good graces.

of a man they turned against his own country.

He can do his five years of probation like every other major felon, then the traitorous scumbag can leave.

Netanyahu has been utterly disrepectful towards Obama. He also smeared both Obama and Kerry distorting their efforts to get a ceasefire when Netanyahu really did not want one and demonizing the deal with Iran, ignoring Israeli intelligence that.it was good. Then he asked for 5 billion rather than the former about 3.5 billion a year for 10 years " to make up for Iran".

Maybe you could suggest Israel formally admit he was their spy and apologize. They should additionally say the government will NOT reward him by paying him for this illegal work.

Pollard is a traitor...and sold out the US for his 30 pieces of silver. Let him rot for the next 5 years, and then revoke his citizenship and send his ass to Israel!

Pollard is no better then Robert Hansen!!!

spied for the Soviet Union, caused the executions of many of our agents and got the same punishment as Pollard who spied for a friend.

And then of course, there was the Soviet Spy Rudolph Abel, who was exchanged for US pilot Gary Powers.

Perhaps Israel should have captured a CIA operative in Israel and held it for exchange.

But then, the hatred here for anything Israel is almost too pathetic to even be considered on the merit.

just doing his job. My problem is US Citizens who provide US classified information to other nations.

Fuck him. He got what he deserved. And the fact that he did it on behalf of our "friends" the Israelis is not a mitigating factor. He should have done the honorable thing and resigned, renounced his US citizenship, then announced his loyalty and service to a foreign country.

his potential employer's computers being open to search seems pretty extreme to me...

He was an American.

As such it is really part of his sentence.

The problem in fact is that Israel will not only welcome him as a hero, but pay him for what he did ---- all the while demanding $5 billion a year from us.

Maybe if Israel wanted to make it more likely the President would waive this, they could apologize and agree he does not get money from Israel.

Prior to Pollard's plea bargain, the U.S. government began preparing a multi-count criminal indictment on him, which included drug and tax-fraud charges along with espionage. The government's indictment included allegations that Pollard used classified documents to unsuccessfully broker an arms deal with the governments of South Africa, Argentina, and Taiwan. FBI investigators also determined that Pollard met with three Pakistanis and an Iranian foreigner in an attempt to broker arms in 1985. Pollard eventually cooperated with investigators in exchange for a plea agreement for leniency for himself and his wife. Israel said initially that Pollard worked for an unauthorized rogue operation, a position they maintained for more than ten years. They finally agreed to cooperate with the investigation in exchange for immunity for the Israelis involved.

When asked to return the stolen material, the Israelis reportedly turned over only a few dozen low-classified documents. At the time, the Americans knew that Pollard had passed tens of thousands of documents. The Israelis created a schedule designed to wear them down, including many hours per day of commuting in blacked-out buses on rough roads, and frequent switching of buses, leaving them without adequate time to sleep, and preventing them from sleeping on the commute. The identity of Pollard's original handler, Sella, was withheld. All questions had to be translated into Hebrew and answered in Hebrew, and then translated back into English, even though all the parties spoke perfect English. The Commander Jerry Agee remembers that, even as he departed the airport, airport security made a point of informing him that "you will never be coming back here again." After his return to the US, Agee found various items had been stolen from his luggage. The abuse came not only from the guards and officials, but also the Israeli media.

Sella was eventually indicted on three counts of espionage by a United States court.Israel refused to allow Sella to be interviewed unless he was granted immunity. The United States refused because of Israel's previous failure to cooperate as promised. Israel refused to extradite Sella, instead giving him command of Tel Nof Airbase. The U.S. Congress responded by threatening to cut aid to Israel, at which point Sella voluntarily stepped down to defuse tensions.

And the Israelis were so helpful afterwards...and what finally forced Sella to step down...the US Congress threatened to cut aid to Israel!

Maybe that's what Congress needs to do, threaten to cut aid...every so often!!!

Over past 30 years, they have even gotten better and more expensive at that Mountain building 'skill'.

They are the ones at fault they should not have any USAID until everyone involved in the Pollack incident is jailed in that probably includes bibi because I'm sure he knew all about it

His habeus petition to the Court affirms that has a job in the finance department of an investment firm in New York.

Though eventually, I bet he is allowed to go home when parole is done. How long is the parole?

He needs to be stripped of his citizenship and sent to Israel and anybody that supports him monetarily should be on the terrorist watchlist

with no relevant skills.

But I know a Republican Jewish Coalition member funded this case for 15 years. His lawyer is an RJC director.

A firm is actually hiring him. I think the RJC member is paying the legal bills to Eliot Lauer, Pollard's lawyer.

at some disgraced wingnut by putting him on the payroll in a job with no responsibilities.

now that I think about it, the wall street job does make sense.

Pollard copied and delivered the entire codebook for the naval Signals intelligence (RASIN), gave up the identities of US assets and case officers around the world and those are only some of his crimes. People who sacrifice for the US were put at risk. His crimes makes Snowden look like a choirboy.

The notion that you can deliver classified information to "a friend" as opposed to an enemy is laughably naive.

rotted and that old 'heat ink' faded to nothing by now.

parole guidelines, and there are plenty of people in Congress and elsewhere who would like to see him actually serve that life sentence.


There are others, too, who foolishly think Obama had something to do with his release (he didn't).

In clearer words than the media used.

And all those treasonous shitheads like him. Make me sick.

There're a lot of them, fuck them all.