No, that's NOT the issue. Pollard was guilty of handing over classified documents to his Israeli handler; he even confessed and gave details of his activities as part of a plea bargain. Unfortunately, the judge in the case (the late Aubrey Robinson, a black Democrat Carter appointee, BTW) gave him absolutely NO leniency in sentencing, in violation of the plea bargain agreement. Rather than give him three years, five years, or even ten years, he gave Pollard LIFE. This sentence was draconian in comparison to other sentences meted out to other defendants convicted of spying for friendly or allied nations. We're not talking about spying for the USSR here.
As it turns out, Pollard has now served 29 years, much longer than any other espionage case where the beneficiary was a friendly or allied nation. It won't harm the US at all if his sentence were to be commuted to time served at this point. Whatever then-classified information Pollard knew about all those years ago is undoubtedly out of date and useless now. And the length of that time served would more than an adequate deterrent to others thinking of any similar activities on the part of Israel or any other ally or friendly nation.
BTW, the headline on the posted piece should have read "FORMER CIA Director," not "CIA Director," because Mr. Woolsey is not connected to the current administration at all.
Lets be clear, Pollard violated his plea agreement by talking to the media (liberal barf-bag Wolf Blitzer, BTW) before his sentencing, which essentially took any 'deal' he had off the table, and his criminal activity extended well beyond just selling highly classified information to the Israelis who to this day have not come clean about the extent of what they received.