Why Obama Will Free Jonathan Pollard

War in Context ^ | June 9, 2012 | Grant Smith

[pavlova]

The US Department of Justice has released new files about convicted spy Jonathan Pollard’s bid for presidential clemency. Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 after passing more than a million highly classified documents to Israel while working as an intelligence analyst for the US Navy. Documents in the Freedom of Information Act response (PDF) reference 32 pages of government agency deliberative communications and 37 pages of new communications between Pardon Attorney Ronald Rogers and Pollard’s legal team — all produced since July of 2011. While the contents have been withheld, their existence signals that the Pollard commutation request may be nearing a conclusion within the Obama administration. June 18 could mark the culmination of a massive lobbying campaign for release. Obama’s dismal record on Israeli accountability suggests Pollard will soon walk free.

[IncPen]

By the way, regardless of the outcome of the election, look for an A list of pardons in December to include the likes of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Bernadine Dohrn, Eric Holder and a raft of others.
It will be calculated to outrage the right.

[Popman]

His poll numbers with the Jewish community is in the toilet...large Jewish donors have stopped donating to his campaign all in reaction to his tough stance on the never ending Jewish Pali question, which has been completely one sided....jews must make all the compromise

Releasing Pollard is simply a move to open up the Jewish coffers...

[canuck_conservative]

BTW, we have had agents from other ALLIES spying on us including Taiwan, France, and even the UK.

The UK? And France?

I'm calling BS on that. Let's see some proof for that ridiculous statement.

[PapaBear3625]

He'll free the cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal

He can't. He only has the power to pardon FEDERAL crimes. Mumia is jailed on PA state charges of murdering a police officer.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe he will secretly promise to pardon Pollard but not do so before the election--those who are "in the know" would spread the word quietly to their followers but the public at large would be unaware.

Of course if after that he lost the election he could renege on the promise. Except that if he loses his goal will be to do maximum damage to the US in the two months or so he has left.

[Pharmboy]

I do not doubt it. Remember when Clinton pardoned the FALN bombers to get even more of the Hispanic vote?

[HiJinx]

Ping...

[darth]

Hell, I was there.

During my aerospace career I encountered agents from many countries.

A few examples:

In the early 1990s my company was approached by an Israeli company with a stereolithography machine that could create molds and models of 3 D parts overnight from a CAD drawing. The female rep was very beautiful and told me of spending a lot of time exploring South America. She set up a meeting with her executives when they visited the USA. After the meeting, I asked her, “XXXX (name redacted), why do all of your top execs look like paratroopers?”

I never heard from her again. Of course, the Israeli company would have to “service” the machine regularly and download all of the CAD drawings of spacecraft and aircraft parts.

Mossad, of course.

A British born colleague of mine related how she got herself bayoneted while photographing a military base in Yugoslavia. She was in charge of our company’s technology databases. I think she owed her allegiance to the Queen.

In 1986 I was working on a Star Wars laser project. The ceramic mirror we designed was being fabricated in France. The French were behind schedule and so our Chief Engineer, who spoke the language, called the French plant. He got his call transferred to the factory floor where a worker asked him which mirror he was inquiring about. Our engineer was puzzled, “But we are only purchasing one mirror”. “Oui”, the Frenchman replied, “But we sold two more of your design to the Russians”.

In the early 1990s my company had a contract with a Japanese company to help them develop a space launch vehicle. The FBI went to my boss and told him, “The Japanese rep is not working for the Japanese aerospace company. He works for the government of Japan. We busted an engineer from YYYY (company redacted) and he got 30 years for selling classified info to the Japanese rep. We did not get enough evidence to convict the Japanese agent last time. Will you help us set him up?”

My company brass decided to NOT cooperate with the FBI for fear of losing the contract. So much for patriotism in the defense industry.

As for the Brits and France trying to steal tech and influence our politicians, didn’t they tell you about this in your security briefings? Maybe you did not get the same briefing I got.

Our companies steal technology from each other all the time. Do you think countries don’t protect their industries and pursue national goals?

[darth]

BTW, just noticed your screen name.

I don’t think our friends to the North spy on us. However, we probably spy on them.

It’s just Big Power politics.

[okie01]

“But we sold two more of your design to the Russians”.

St. Gobain, right?

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

Thanks Hyjinx for the tipoff

[darth]

Duh, its been so long I forgot the name of the French company.

It was the one that was famous for leading edge ceramics in defense and aerospace components.

[okie01]

It was the one that was famous for leading edge ceramics in defense and aerospace components.

That would be St. Gobain, I do believe.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I would be stunned if this happens..

[Ax]

NSA fired all the Jews on the payroll? I didn’t know people had to put their religion down on their apps for employment. Got any supporting documentation?

[Grampa Dave]

Several of Obozo’s favorite left wind non profits will get some big donations from Mossad Front organizations.

The faux left wing non profits will take their usual money laundering fee of 10-20% and “donate” the rest to various liberal PAC money machines to help Obozo during this election.

He and the rats in charge are desperate for money after Romney raised more money in May than they did.

Obozo has used the rich gays and Follywood crowd like his personal reelection ATM’s recently.

[null and void]

Poison Photo-Drop .. decision to release photographs .. will imperil nation .. its defenders.

Tue May 12 09:52:58 2009 · 13 of 21
null and void to Sergeant Tim

Before he is done I fully expect him to release the names, addresses and phone numbers of anyone anywhere in the world who has ever provided any information to agency workers.

The damage to US intel will last multiple generations.

[allmendream]

Obama has a dismal record on Israeli accountability???

Please explain what they are accountable for and how you think Obama should hold them to account.

[Liz]

Israel is the only place in the world where one can debark with a suitcase full of cash, go to a bank, and nobody asks where it came from.

NOTE When he was OBAMSA's COS, and controlled the US Treasury at the same time, Rham Emanuel made several scheduled (and unscheduled?) trips to Israel. God knows the deals Emanuel made there---so that Ohaha can get his hands on his 2012 reelection money.

Ohaha undoubtedly has billions stashed away in Israel---taken from the trillion dollar Treasury programs he contrived for the "failing economy" he "inherited" from Bush.

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FOURTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS Behind The Real Size of Obama's Wall Street Bailout; A guide to the abbreviations, acronyms, and obscure programs that make up the $14 trillion federal bailout.
SOURCE motherjones.com
Mon Dec. 21, 2009 12:23 PM PST

The price tag for the Wall Street bailout is often put at $700 billion—the size of the Troubled Assets Relief Program. But TARP is just the best known program in an array of more than 30 overseen by Treasury Department and Federal Reserve that have paid out or put aside money to bail out financial firms and inject money into the markets.

To get a sense of the size of the real $14 trillion bailout, see our chart at web site. Below, a guide to the pieces of the puzzle:

Treasury Department bailout programs
(Remember that Obama's Treasury Dept was controlled by his then-COS Rahm Emanuel---a savvy, connected G/S lobbyist in the WH)

Money Market Mutual Fund: In September 2008, the Treasury announced that it would insure the holdings of publicly offered money market mutual funds. According to the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), these guarantees could have potentially cost the federal government more than $3 trillion [PDF].

Public-Private Investment Fund: This joint Treasury-Federal Reserve program bought toxic assets from banks and brokerages—as much as $5 billion of assets per firm. According to SIGTARP, the government's potential exposure from the PPIF is between $500 million and $1 trillion [PDF].

TARP: As part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury has made loans to or investments more than 750 banks and financial institutions. $650 billion has been paid out (not including HAMP; see below). As of December 21, 2009, $117.5 billion of that has been repaid.

Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) stock purchase: The Treasury has bought $200 million in preferred stock from Fannie Mae and another $200 million from Freddie Mac [PDF] to show that they "will remain viable entities critical to the functioning of the housing and mortgage markets."

GSE mortgage-backed securities purchase: Under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the Treasury may buy mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to SIGTARP, these purchases could cost as much as $314 billion ---SNIP---.

LONG READ---go to web site to read more and checkout the shocking financial charts.

SOURCE http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/behind-real-size-bailout

[Liz]

.....a ridiculous statement....."other US ALLIES spy on us including Taiwan, France, and even the UK"......

You got that right.

Comparing Israel's spying w/ US "allies" in other parts of the hemisphere is just plain stupid.

Taiwan, France and the UK, etc do NOT get trillions of US tax dollars jet-streamed to them 24/7 from every US govt agency----over and above the $10 Billion foreign aid "ceremoniously" announced each year---

----nor do our other allies have massive supplies of US arms stockpiled, nor have our other allies duped the US into fighting trillion dollars wars for them in various Mideast hellholes.

Israel loves to brag about how THEY keep the US safe. Balderdash----never have Americans been so threatened-----we have never incurred the level of violence and enemity now going on since Israel became our "best friend in the Mideast."