Watch your mouth. He was indicted on exactly one count. I translated that into "only once" without properly accounting for the fact that he made eleven drops to the Israelis.
"one document Pollard is believed to have slipped to the Israelis -- thought to have landed in Soviet hands, albeit unintentionally -- was a huge National Security Agency compendium of frequencies used by foreign military and intelligence services. Gathering this information cost the U.S. billions of dollars, but Pollard rendered it useless."
That's one of Aldritch Ames's crimes, chalked up to Pollard by Time. But of course Time Magazine has never been known to get facts wrong, so that can't be.
From further down in the above-cited Epstein document: "one target of Pollard espionage was the data that the US had obtained about Saddam Hussein's biological warfare capability."
Duh. That was of vital interest to the Israelis, and should have been shared with them.
Via Epstein, the prosecutor, DiGenova, speaks: "It is absolutely indefensible from either a legal or humanitarian standpoint to grant clemency to him".
Straw man. Nobody's talking about clemency here. He already served 20 years. If they sent him home today with a free t-shirt, it could hardly be called "clemency".
This worried the US government even more than the incredible amount of documents involved, approximately 850,O0O pages...
This is BS of the sort that has already been thoroughly debunked. Eleven briefcase loads could hardly amount to more than 1,000 pages--let alone the better part of one million pages. I already identified the bogus means by which that astronomic figure was derived. To suggest that he actually took 850,000 pages of documents is absurd.
Pollard had shopped his access to two other foreign powers that he thought would pay him more, before trying the Israelis.
Proof? (Hint: you're lying.)
When I was in Israel, we often stood for hours outside the base gate because the Israelis had some operation going on they didn't want their American allies to see....LOL! We were considered "spies".
Tell me again about "should have been shared"....you know nothing about which you ramble about...