Yeah, and people with a brain will go with the multiple CIA Directors and Secretary’s of Defense who thought the sentence should fit the crime and he needed to stay in prison.
Here’s a “short list” of some people saying that the sentence is disproportionate for the crime and he should be released.
They all say - “Now is the time to free Jonathan Pollard.”
Lawrence J Korb
Former US Assistant Secretary of State
Senator Allen K Simpson
Co-chair of the Presidents Economic Commission
Senator Dennis DeConcini
Former Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Bernard W Nussbaum
Former White House Council
Michael B Muckasey
Former US Attorney General
George P Shultz
Former US Secretary of State
Henry A Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State
R James Woolsey
Former CIA Director
That’s just the short list. The long list gets a heck of a lot longer.
Here’s what one of them said ...
Mukasey: Commute Pollard’s sentence to time served
http://www.jpost.com/International/Mukasey-Commute-Pollards-sentence-to-time-served
Former US A-G sends letter to Obama, says agent didn’t have motive to harm US; Pollard in poor health; not yet informed of PM’s request.
Former US attorney-general Michael Mukasey sent a letter to US President Barack Obama, released Wednesday, calling for Jonathan Pollard’s sentence to be commuted to time served: “[Pollard] has not been alleged by anyone to have had any motive to harm the United States. In these circumstances, a life sentence can only be considered utterly disproportionate to the crime,” the letter read.
“I had occasion myself to consider life sentences, and indeed to impose them. In more than 18 years on the bench, I imposed such sentences on four defendants,” Mukasey said.
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Here’s the full quote for what he said ...
In more than 18 years on the bench, I imposed such sentences on four defendants. Two of them committed and ordered multiple murders, often under circumstances of great cruelty. The other two were convicted in a terrorism prosecution, one having committed murder with his own hand and plotted further killing, the other having provided the theological justification that he knew would be, and in fact was, taken as the order by others to commit multiple murders. Pollard’s offense does not nearly approach any of those.