Posted on 01/15/2004 2:01:19 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Lawyers for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard are asking an appeals court to allow a review of his life sentence for selling military secrets to Israel. The request filed Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeks to overturn a judge's ruling in November that found Pollard had waited too long to challenge his 1987 sentence and rejected claims that Pollard's original attorneys did not adequately represent him. Pollard's current lawyers argue that U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan didn't address their claims that prosecutors reneged on a promise to seek a lesser sentence in return for Pollard's cooperation. "Judge Hogan never addressed our principal argument, and addressed arguments we did not make or on which we do not rely," the lawyers said in their filing. Pollard, 49, was a civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy when he copied reams of classified documents and gave them to Israel. He was not paid when his spying began in 1984, but acknowledged that Israel later began giving him a few thousand dollars a month. Pollard was caught in November 1985 and arrested after unsuccessfully seeking refuge at the Israeli Embassy. The case has been a point of contention in U.S.-Israeli relations, with the Israeli government repeatedly pressing for his release. At the Nov. 13 hearing, Hogan refused Pollard's request to review secret documents that the Reagan administration submitted to the judge who sentenced Pollard 16 years ago. An appeal of that ruling was filed in November. Pollard's lawyers said they need to see the material to rebut government arguments against any new appeal or against a request for presidential clemency. Government lawyers are scheduled to file their response to Pollard's motion by mid-February, and a ruling by the appeals court is expected sometime after mid-March, said Jacques Semmelman, Pollard's attorney.
If we've discovered a way of executing him TWICE, well then, I'm all in favor of a careful re-assessment of his sentence.
Color me tolerant!
In the final analysis, the man is a traitor and ought to have been executed. The Israelis are trying hard to ransom him or spring him with all these lawyers, as a means to encourage their other agents in the US military and intelligence agencies.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
PLEASE! These wackos are currently fighting for terrorist rights to appeal! This topic NEEDS to be a part of their next national debate.
hmmmmmm
Actually, this uknown agent was known as, "Mega".
IIRC, the man believed to be Pollard's katsa (controller or case officer) was arrested about a week after Pollard went to prison. He was spying for the Russians. He's been staying in the Israeli Graybar Resort ever since.
Note that a number of those bits of information are of no practical use to Israel, but were priceless to the Soviet Union.
This selfless servant of world Jewry was paid thousands of dollars for each haul, cash on the barrelhead.
Anderson also repeats the allegation that the Israelis (specifically PM and former Stern Gang terrorist Yitzhak Shamir) remarketed some of this data to the Soviets, in return for concessions on Jewish emigration (needed to shore up Israel's weak demographics vis-a-vis the Palis).
If the Israelis want him that badly, they should be prepared to offer us something of equivalent value from their Russian pals' toybox. And thet should be prepared to receive him in pieces.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I have no way of knowing what the information was, but it caused the United States to expend thousands if not tens of thousand of hours of technical and scientific effort to change what Pollard had revealed. The loss, literally, was immeasurable.
I agree that Pollard should have been executed. Since he wasn't, he should be kept securely locked away until he meets his maker and then receives a reward based on his merit.
Which Israelis are you referring to ?
Who do you think their other agents in the US military and intelligence agencies are ?
Tell us all about your problems with the world's Jews. Too many, right ?
This type of language is typical of Islamic terrorists and their neoNazi confederates.
Hard to say. 1985 was "the year of the spy" and over 1985-86 a classified but very high number (closer to 100 than zero) of sources in the USSR and Soviet Bloc were recalled to Russia and, mostly, executed. By January 1987 we were down to bupkus in terms of practical human sources in that part of the world. Not all these sources were fully recruited agents (probably a distinction w/o a difference to the lay person).
There were also significant diminutions in take from technical operations in that period.
The question is, who died because of Pollard? In 1985 not just Pollard, but Edward Howard, Aldrich Ames, Ronald Pelton, Army Warrant Officer James Hall, air force gay blade Jeffrey Carney, and the John Walker syndicate all gave up significant data directly to Soviet handlers. Others such as Sharon Scranage gave the data to 3rd parties who passed it to their Soviet liaisons or handlers. Pelton, Hall and Carney mostly compromised technical operations, and Howard, Ames and Scranage mostly gave up human sources. Walker gave up code machinery which has consequences for all kinds of operations. There were other rings active during this period that targeted military information.
So... with all these traitors active, only the CIA and FBI have a prayer of figuring out which intelligence operation was compromised by which traitor. A better way of seeing it might be: we don't know if Pollard got anyone killed, but we know he might have done.
And we know he didn't care if he did.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
ya sayyid, Who taught you to hate Israelis and Jews like this ? Fi ai bilad darastaha ?
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