To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, we've already established what Pollard is - anything else is just haggling over price.
I don't care if all Pollard gave the Israelis was a Redskins schedule - The fact is, he was an agent of a foreign power, under positive, direct control of the Israeli government. The word for this status is "spy" - He had no right or authority to give information to any foreign government, nor was he in a position to assess any supposed U.S. obligation under any international agreement.
Everything else is just rationalization. He is a traitor, plain and simple.
The word for this status is "spy" Well, yes of course. The weird thing is how wound up people tend to get over this one spy, who was relatively harmless.
For example, I hear no clamoring to have Hanssen (who actually cost lives) shot. Neither do I hear any kind of recognition that US spies in other countries (they are wherever the US has interests, you know) actually should be rounded up and shot.
All this seems to add up to one set of rules for one country, or even for one person - which makes me suspicious as ... well, just suspicious :). Let's see if Loftus manages to shake a few things loose.