[Jewbacca]

Rainy.

Unlike the other Pollard-supporting poster you addressed, I can’t say I have great love for Pollard. He was a spy (albeit for legitimate, not anti-American, reasons). In fact, you could argue he was a spy for the correct part of American politics.

Still, he was a spy. He was a liar. And he got caught.

Happened in Israel with spies for Obama. They just got sent home.

There was a deal for sentencing that the judge abrogated after ex parte communications the defense could not rebut.

And he’s spent much more time in prison than others for comparable crimes.

So, yes, I do believe the guilty man (and he is guilty) has paid his debt and should be allowed to go to Israel.

[Alberta's Child]

If you read up on the Pollard case you might learn a lot of things that weren't common knowledge at the time.

For one thing, he didn't just spy for "legitimate" reasons (whatever they may be). He sold classified information to countries as unrelated to his Israeli handlers as South Africa and Pakistan. Some of the information he sold ended up in Soviet hands.

There was a deal for sentencing that the judge abrogated after ex parte communications the defense could not rebut.

I don't believe that was the case at all. Check out the link in Post #8. Joe DiGenova, who prosecuted the case, explains what actually happened. The judge didn't "abrogate" any deal. He overrode the sentencing agreement after the U.S. Secretary of Defense provided a national security damage assessment as required in any such espionage case.

I agree he should be allowed to go to Israel. He should be stripped of his U.S. citizenship first.