Jonathan Pollard is set to be released from a federal prison

[Surf n Turf]

Jonathan Pollard is set to be released from a federal prison

If there was one person who should never see freedom it is Jonathan Pollard. I don't know what sort of deal "Bibi" Netanyahu agreed too, but it is wrong to release this person.

For those of you too young, or not familiar with Pollard, read the article below by Seymour Hersh on this traitors crimes against the United States.

SnT

Why Pollard Should Never Be Released (The Traitor)
The New Yorker Magazine | :January 18, 1999, pp. 26-33 | SEYMOUR M. HERSH

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/576453/posts .

NEW YORK — Former spy Jonathan Pollard is set to be released from a federal prison in North Carolina on Friday, 30 years after he was caught selling American intelligence secrets to Israel. But he'll be on a short leash as he rebuilds his life as a free man.

Pollard, 61, was given a life sentence in 1987 in a case that has complicated diplomacy between the two countries.

He's expected to settle in the New York area while he spends at least the next five years on parole. He will be barred him from traveling outside the country, including to Israel, without permission. Many in Israel view him as a hero.

Both the Justice Department and Pollard's lawyers have so far declined to discuss his parole conditions, but one longtime supporter, Rabbi Pesach Lerner of New York, told a radio interviewer this month that Pollard would have to abide by a curfew and wear a GPS unit to track his movements.

Pollard, a former civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy, was arrested in 1985. He pleaded guilty a year later. Over the decades, the possibility of his early release had been dangled as a bargaining chip in the Middle East peace process.

http://www.startribune.com/us-set-to-release-jonathan-pollard-who-spied-for-israel/351848851/ .

[Divemaster]

Israel is up there with France when it comes to "friends" spying on the United States. Oops, nations don't have friends, they have interests. In spite of the conditions of Pollard's release, don't be surprised if he suddenly pops up at a parade in his honor in Tel Aviv.

[Surf n Turf]

Israel is up there with France when it comes to "friends" spying on the United States. Oops, nations don't have friends, they have interests. In spite of the conditions of Pollard's release, don't be surprised if he suddenly pops up at a parade in his honor in Tel Aviv.

Divemaster,

As you say, Nations don't have friends just "Interests". This exercise left the United States wide open to an attack from the Soviet Union. They had everything..... all the jewels.

SnT


A number of officials strongly suspect that the Israelis repackaged much of Pollard's material and provided it to the Soviet Union in exchange for continued Soviet permission for Jews to emigrate to Israel. Other officials go further, and say there was reason to believe that secret information was exchanged for Jews working in highly sensitive positions in the Soviet Union. A significant percentage of Pollard's documents, including some that described the techniques the American Navy used to track Soviet submarines around the world, was of practical importance only to the Soviet Union. One longtime C.I.A. officer who worked as a station chief in the Middle East said he understood that "certain elements in the Israeli military had used it" -- Pollard's material -- "to trade for people they wanted to get out," including Jewish scientists working in missile technology and on nuclear issues. Pollard's spying came at a time when the Israeli government was publicly committed to the free flow of Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union.

Casey urged increased monitoring of the Israelis during an otherwise routine visit, I was told by the station chief, who is now retired. "He asked if I knew anything about the Pollard case," the station chief recalled, and he said that Casey had added, "For your information, the Israelis used Pollard to obtain our attack plan against the U.S.S.R. all of it. The coordinates, the firing locations, the sequences. And for guess who? The Soviets.

[MR2]

This president hates the USA more than he hates Israel. :mad: