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“In 1986, Pollard pled guilty to US Title 18 Section 794. This section of the espionage code is restricted to offences of a particularly serious nature that include disclosures which ‘directly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack; war plans; communications intelligence or cryptographic information.’

Those convicted of this offense either fetch a life sentence or — as in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg — death!

The espionage codes make no distinction between spying for allies or enemies, but rather within the nature of the information itself. Pollard estimates that the documents he stole could create a stack 6 feet wide, 6 feet long, and 10 feet high. This amounts to over 800,000 pages of US intelligence information, some designated with the highest classification of secrecy. A portion of those documents contained information that revealed how the U.S. analyzes Soviet weaponry, completely undermining America’s nuclear defense capabilities.

Though Pollard now claims that he was only providing information to the benefit of Israel’s national security, even one of his staunchest supporters — ex-CIA Chief James Woolsey —admits that, ‘the material was broad-ranging and included information that did not relate solely to Israel’s immediate security needs. Part of it, if it had found its way into the hands of a hostile country, would have presented a danger to the U.S. ability to collect intelligence.’

And if that doesn’t convince you that he got what he deserved, consider that other convicted spies — like Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames — are serving their life sentences in maximum lockdown, high security hell holes. Meanwhile, Pollard is living the sweet life in North Carolina at the Butner Correctional Facility, which some inmates have dubbed ‘Camp Fluffy.’”