Sorry, I’ve already heard from the officials who know the information firsthand and they say Pollard should be released ....
AND ... Comparing other sentences to Jonathan Pollard
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/sentences.htm
ALSO ...
This sentencing chart was drawn up by Jonathan Pollard’s attorneys, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, for inclusion in a renewed appeal for clemency submitted to the White House in December 2000. It compares the life sentence of Jonathan Pollard with the sentences received in other recent cases of espionage for friendly nations.
Jonathan Pollard is the only person in the history of the United States to receive a life sentence for spying for an ally.
Sentences Imposed on Persons Who Spied for Friendly Nations
Name - Country Spied For - Sentence/Punishment*
Michael Schwartz - Saudi Arabia - Navy discharge (no jail time)
Peter Lee - China - 1 year in halfway house (no jail time)
Samuel Morison - Great Britain - 2 years
Phillip Selden - El Salvador - 2 years
Frederick Hamilton - Ecuador - 37 months
Geneva Jones - Liberia - 37 months
Virginia Jean Baynes - Philippines - 41 months
Abdul Kader Helmy - Egypt - 4 years
Sharon Scranage - Ghana - 5 years
Joseph Brown - Philippines - 6 years
Michael Allen - Philippines - 8 years
Steven Baba - South Africa - 8 years
Robert Kim - South Korea - 9 years
Thomas Dolce - South Africa - 10 years
Steven Lalas -.Greece - 14 years
Jonathan Pollard - Israel - Life imprisonment
* In many instances, the time actually served was considerably less.
Primary source: Website of the Defense Security Service (www.dss.mil), which describes itself as “provid[ing] security services to the Department of Defense” and as being “under the direction, authority, and control of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.”
You’ve already posted this, as well. Your failure to address any of the points delineated by the statement I posted from Naval Intelligence directors, including Pollard’s former boss, confirm this is just an exercise in propaganda for you, and not a discussion. I, like many on here, are left to wonder why you’re posting support from the likes of Barney Frank in support of your cause, here on what’s meant as an American conservative site.