[wimpycat]

OK, I've read it, and I've considered it.

Jonathan Pollard will die in his US prison cell. He will never leave it, except horizontally.

His supporters can bitch and moan about it all they like, but if anyone seriously thinks he'll be released from US custody clearly doesn't have a grasp of American public feeling on spies and clearly doesn't understand that any US President does understand the American public enough to never allow it to happen. Much as I despise Bill Clinton, even he drew the line...he may have been stringing some people along just to see what he could get out of it, but he wouldn't dare actually do it.

[the Real fifi]

Without discussing the merits of the Pollard case, I want you to know that the author of this piece who is known to me is (a) a sloppy researcher,(b) always makes giant,unsubstantiated, leaps from fact to fantasy,(c) should never be relied on. He is the kind of person who can find a conspiracy in a supermarkert barcode.

[E Rocc]

Much as I despise Bill Clinton, even he drew the line...he may have been stringing some people along just to see what he could get out of it, but he wouldn't dare actually do it.

I can count three actual times I had respect for Clinton: when they sent Chelsea to a private school, when he refused to sign the landmines treaty, and when he didn't pardon Pollard and Peltier despite lefty pressure to do so.

According to Bill Casey, it wasn't revealing the names of our spies that was Pollard's egregious offense:

William J. Casey, the late C.I.A. director, who was known for his close ties to the Israeli leadership, stunned one of his station chiefs by suddenly complaining about the Israelis breaking the "ground rules." The issue arose when 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." Casey had then explained that the Israelis had traded the Pollard data for Soviet emigres. "How's that for cheating?" he had asked.

Without addressing this charge, this article makes no case whatsoever.

-Eric