Oh, what American lives were lost due to Jonathan Pollard ?
I did not accuse anyone of antisemitism
yet.
Do you have any shame
or integrity ?
I'll settle for either.
I know that a bunch of sources and agents were executed in 1985-87. NONE OF THESE WAS AMERICAN. They were foreign nationals working for us -- in other words, betraying their countries. It was our responsibility to them to keep them alive. Thanks to a bunch of people, possibly including but probably not including Pollard, they were betrayed to their own nations. Like Pollard (and the other dirtbags I've mentioned), they were arrested and tried. Unlike Pollard, most of them faced the supreme penalty.
The way the game is played is: you slam your traitor. If you also catch the foreign officer who handles him, you PNG him (if under diplomatic cover, as Pollard's handlers were), or you arrest him (if not). Usually foreign officer, i.e. a CIA case officer caught in Russia, are not executed (you want to question them, and ultimately, to trade them). The US and USSR very, very seldom injured each other's officers during the Cold War.
The individual spies were liable to get the spy's reward -- like Oleg Penkovsky or Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to name two famous cases everybody should know about.
They say spying is an exciting job, but the retirement plan stinks.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F