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CIA Director: Jonathan Pollard Is In Prison Because He's Jewish
Israel News Agency ^ | February 9, 2014 | Karen Levy

Posted on 02/08/2014 11:23:21 PM PST by IsraelBeach

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To: RFEngineer
Woolsey is an opportunistic hack and an @sshole, and you're right to question his motives and speculate about who is paying his salary now. When he was the CIA director he was adamantly opposed to Pollard's release, and he doesn't know anything about the Pollard case today that he didn't know back then.
21 posted on 02/09/2014 8:23:20 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Mr. Jeeves
This tends to confirm the assertion in the headline, rather than contradict it.

No, it doesn't.

22 posted on 02/09/2014 8:24:36 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: mac_truck
Pollard has been parole eligible for some time, but has never applied.

It's funny how all of the jack@sses who come out with these public statements in support of Pollard's release fail to mention that.

23 posted on 02/09/2014 8:28:55 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: IsraelBeach

The race card is ugly no matter who plays it.


24 posted on 02/09/2014 8:32:41 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Vendome

The best reason I can think of for keeping Pollard in prison is that the next Jew who thinks about giving away our secrets might just remember what happened to Pollard, and decide the punishment is too great.


25 posted on 02/09/2014 11:25:05 AM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: IsraelBeach

Now if we could only lock up all mossad agents and their supporters worldwide, then we’d get somewhere.


26 posted on 02/09/2014 11:40:34 AM PST by AdamBomb
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks IsraelBeach.
In the mid 1980's, Pollard discovered that information vital to Israel's security was being deliberately withheld by certain elements within the US national security establishment. Israel was legally entitled to this vital security information according to a 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries.
Snowden / Wikileaks / Paul family ping.
27 posted on 02/09/2014 1:09:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: IsraelBeach

Every time someone brings up Pollard, they may as well be an agent for Iran.


28 posted on 02/09/2014 2:18:51 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: FixitGuy; IsraelBeach; firebrand; juliej; rmlew; SJackson; Inyokern; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; ...
So it's okay to share information with XYZ country if you're an XYZ?????

No, that's NOT the issue. Pollard was guilty of handing over classified documents to his Israeli handler; he even confessed and gave details of his activities as part of a plea bargain. Unfortunately, the judge in the case (the late Aubrey Robinson, a black Democrat Carter appointee, BTW) gave him absolutely NO leniency in sentencing, in violation of the plea bargain agreement. Rather than give him three years, five years, or even ten years, he gave Pollard LIFE. This sentence was draconian in comparison to other sentences meted out to other defendants convicted of spying for friendly or allied nations. We're not talking about spying for the USSR here.

As it turns out, Pollard has now served 29 years, much longer than any other espionage case where the beneficiary was a friendly or allied nation. It won't harm the US at all if his sentence were to be commuted to time served at this point. Whatever then-classified information Pollard knew about all those years ago is undoubtedly out of date and useless now. And the length of that time served would more than an adequate deterrent to others thinking of any similar activities on the part of Israel or any other ally or friendly nation.

BTW, the headline on the posted piece should have read "FORMER CIA Director," not "CIA Director," because Mr. Woolsey is not connected to the current administration at all.

29 posted on 02/09/2014 3:32:01 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: IsraelBeach

Enough already. He knew the risks. He can die a hero in prison.


30 posted on 02/09/2014 5:35:59 PM PST by montag813
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To: IsraelBeach

Oliver North, in his books—relates how the very core culture of the US State Department (and this was in the ‘80s before the “anti-Zionist” movement became vogue on America’s campuses) is virulently anti-Semitic.

You can bet Hillary was a big part of that too—and we know where Mr. Obama-and-friends stand in the Arab-Israeli conflict....


31 posted on 02/09/2014 7:59:56 PM PST by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG!)
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To: B4Ranch
The best reason I can think of for keeping Pollard in prison is that the next Jew who thinks about giving away our secrets might just remember what happened to Pollard, and decide the punishment is too great.

The above comment reinforces and validates the headline.
Pollard is only in prison today because he is Jewish. That's not a race card being played, it's fact! How many Jews work for the NSA, CIA and mil Intel? How many don't want to? How many Jews in influential places think twice about cooperating with US Intel because of anti-semitism?
It's time to release Pollard. He has more than paid the price for the crime ... unless of course your thinking is "let that Jew boy rot in prison".

Keeping Pollard locked up after 29 years does not hurt Israel, it hurts US Intel.

32 posted on 02/09/2014 9:02:24 PM PST by IsraelBeach
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To: IsraelBeach

I don’t tend to think of adults as boys. Nor do I think of Pollard as a Jew primarily, just as a traitor. Many Jewish folks do seem to have this, “ Oh, poor me. I’m Jewish, so every little discomfort in my life must be because of my Jewish heritage” which I find annoying. I’m glad my son in law isn’t infected with the woe is me affliction.


33 posted on 02/10/2014 8:46:19 AM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: justiceseeker93
Pollard was guilty of handing over classified documents to his Israeli handler; he even confessed and gave details of his activities as part of a plea bargain. Unfortunately, the judge in the case (the late Aubrey Robinson, a black Democrat Carter appointee, BTW) gave him absolutely NO leniency in sentencing, in violation of the plea bargain agreement.

Lets be clear, Pollard violated his plea agreement by talking to the media (liberal barf-bag Wolf Blitzer, BTW) before his sentencing, which essentially took any 'deal' he had off the table, and his criminal activity extended well beyond just selling highly classified information to the Israelis who to this day have not come clean about the extent of what they received.

34 posted on 02/11/2014 7:43:53 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

Pollard didn’t give secrets to Israel; he sold them for a down payment of $50,000 with the expectation of $450,000 more.


35 posted on 04/11/2014 11:35:48 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: FixitGuy

Once another entity gets that information, you lose all control over where that information could wind up. Who is to say some of Pollard’s intel, didn’t eventually wind up in the hands of the ChiComs?


36 posted on 04/11/2014 11:37:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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