“If you’re hung up on this for any reason, pretend Pollard is a South Korean or Filipino-American or an ally from someplace else, and free him.”
Well if you are in to affirmative action for spy release, I guess that will work for the average dumb arse. The problem is that no SK or FA has done anything near as bad as Pollard has to national security.
That was James Woolsey, who was head of the CIA, who said that. If anyone should be able to know what all the classified and unreleased information on Pollard is — he would be the one who would know. He is not of that opinion, as you express it, and he did examine the information.
Since I don’t think you have access to all the classified and top secret information ... I’ll go with Woolsey, rather than you ... :-) ...