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Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, 66, who passed defense secrets from America to Tel Aviv and caused tension between between the two allies is freed from strict parole
Daily Mail ^ | 11-21-20 | FRANCES MULRANEY

Posted on 11/21/2020 5:02:42 PM PST by dynachrome

A Jewish American man jailed in 1985 for spying for Israel was released from strict parole conditions Friday, allowing his move to Israel, the US Justice Department said.

Jonathan Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, served 30 years for giving classified US documents and had been confined by parole terms to the United States since his release in 2015, despite Israeli pressure to allow him to leave.

US officials said Pollard, over a series of months and for a salary, provided 1,500 intelligence summaries and 800 classified documents to Israel in the mid-80s.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1985; 2015; capweinberger; casperweinberger; israelispy; jonathanpollard; nosignofkraken; parole; pollard; spies; spooks; spying; weinberger
He gave a lot of secrets away.
1 posted on 11/21/2020 5:02:42 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

I don’t approve of this at all.


2 posted on 11/21/2020 5:05:19 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: dynachrome

No relation


3 posted on 11/21/2020 5:09:18 PM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: dynachrome

I don’t know enough. But since Israel is an ally, Pollard has served his sentence for his crime.


4 posted on 11/21/2020 5:11:02 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Pollard needs run over by a trash truck. The penalty for treason should be death.


5 posted on 11/21/2020 5:14:53 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: dynachrome

And yet Clinton, Biden, Comey, Brennan, Rosenstein, etc still walk free....


6 posted on 11/21/2020 5:16:06 PM PST by curious7
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To: CodeToad
Pollard needs run over by a trash truck. The penalty for treason should be death.

Many democrats deserve the same, for their treacherous crimes.

7 posted on 11/21/2020 5:30:28 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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To: dynachrome
Wikipedia: Jonathan Pollard

"Former FBI and U.S. Navy lawyer M.E. "Spike" Bowman, a top legal adviser to navy intelligence at the time of Pollard's arrest who had intimate knowledge of the Pollard case, issued a detailed critique in 2011 of the case for clemency. "Because the case never went to trial, it is difficult for outside observers to understand the potential impact and complexity of the Pollard betrayal," he wrote. "There is no doubt that Pollard was devoted to Israel. However, the extent of the theft and the damage was far broader and more complex than evidenced by the single charge and sentence." In his estimation, Pollard "was neither a U.S. nor an Israeli patriot. He was a self-serving, gluttonous character seeking financial reward and personal gratification."

Pollard did not only spy for Israel. He spied for anyone that would pay him and for his own personal business interests.

(P.S. - Spying for allies still spying)

8 posted on 11/21/2020 5:37:17 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: MinorityRepublican

We used to execute traitors


9 posted on 11/21/2020 5:42:00 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: dynachrome
allowing his move to Israel

His US passport should be revoked, he should no longer be an American citizen.

10 posted on 11/21/2020 5:43:54 PM PST by newzjunkey (Fight like hell in GA for the Senate - was Vote Giant Meteor in )
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To: Shadow44

He should be dead.


11 posted on 11/21/2020 5:55:04 PM PST by NativeSon ( )
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To: dynachrome

I’m a first generation American and I could never imagine betraying my country under any circumstance. It’s a shame that traitors like Pollard are not sentenced to death for their treachery.


12 posted on 11/21/2020 6:04:55 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: AlaskaErik

I distrust any dual citizenship people.


13 posted on 11/21/2020 6:06:00 PM PST by dynachrome (People who get what they want are often surprised when they also get what they deserve. ~ james wood)
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To: dynachrome

He should have been executed.

Treason, even on behalf of an ally, is still treason.

If we had wanted them to know what he had given them we would have done so ourselves.


14 posted on 11/21/2020 6:16:10 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: dynachrome

Pollard is a self-serving disgrace, he’ll be a self-serving disgrace in Israel. My only hope is that this was part of peace negotiations with Israel and it wasn’t just Trump being snookered.


15 posted on 11/21/2020 6:16:54 PM PST by jz638
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To: dynachrome

30 years is a decent sentence. What disgusts me is how many so called “American citizens” on this very forum kept posting over the last 20+ years about how he should be released. They know who they are. He was a traitor and deserved his time in prison.


16 posted on 11/21/2020 7:16:51 PM PST by StolarStorm
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