Hansen, Ames, the Walker family ... bad people acting with obviously evil motives to place us all at further risk. Not so Pollard. Pollard acted on behalf of our interest as he understood it, and not to place us at risk but to move us away from it. Iraq, until we liberated it, and Iran then and today are and were our enemies. Pollard's acts were against our enemies and on behalf of their perceived enemy, our ally, Israel.
"Hansen, Ames, the Walker family ... bad people acting with obviously evil motives to place us all at further risk."
Same could be said of the Rosenbergs--oh, wait, they're your co-tribalists, and must be defended at all costs.
"Not so Pollard. Pollard acted on behalf of our interest as he understood it, and not to place us at risk but to move us away from it."
1. Pollard's job was to support execution of national policy, not to make it behind everyone else's back.
2. Have you ever heard the term "false flag recruitment?"
3. Pollard passed enormous amounts of intelligence that had absolutely nothing to do with Israel, Iraq, or Iran.
4. He has consistently refused to identify which documents he sent to Israel, precisely because admitting to everything he did would undermine his claim that he was a selfless patriot acting only in the US' best interests.