I agree - he should be released...
He's served more time spying for an ally than spies for the Soviet Union.
High Court Justice Eliyakim Rubinstein on Thursday made a rare politically tainted comment when saying that the United States should release Jonathan Pollard, who has been jailed for almost 20 years following his conviction for spying for Israel.
"It is time the U.S. Administration free Jonathan Pollard," Rubinstein said. "20 years is more than enough time to serve in prison and I believe that the U.S. should pardon him."
posted by GayandRight @ 5:03 PM
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He shouldn't be released.
Look. We can view Pollard's crime as "less bad" because he was spying for an ally, and not for an enemy. In the end, however, it's still irrelevant: Pollard was SPYING ON TH UNITED STATES, and was passing sensitive information on to Israel. What would happen if a government that had spies in Israel got its hands on the information Pollard supplied? What if that government was hostile to the United States?
Pollard spied on his country. That is treason. The penalty for treason is either death or extensive imprisonment. Pollard should consider himself lucky that it was the latter, and not the former.
If the US government were to release Pollard, they would risk him selling US secrets to other nations (whether or not his reasons for what he did were ideological or not), and on top of that they would be sending a message to US citizens that "Espionage against your government is acceptable."
Pollard should remain in jail, where he belongs.
Let the bastard rot in prison. If released he'll just "disappear", later to resurface in Israel spilling whatever else he knows about US capabilities. Even if outdated it would serve as background and confirmation of intel' that the Israelis might not have other sources. In may ways, that Israel is a relatively-stauch ally of the United States merely magnifies the "bretrayal" Pollard committed.
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