[bvw]

Seems to me you make a grand case for Pollard's release. Follow this: (1) You recognize that Pollard is being held because the Agency knows things nobody else does, dangerous, horrid things Pollard caused. (2) By this it ain't irrational, but rather reasonable, to say you recognize that a nation -- this Nation -- has to have secrets, to have secret bureaus and agencies acting secretly.

Agree so far? I hope so! If not, give me fifty (virtual) push-ups, Jarhead!

Anyway, here's the jump...

(3) Pollard is no longer a seceret, and the stories told aren't so secret anymore if true, or those stories are false otherwise.

Thus (4a) Since the secrets out, he should be released already! Leaving him in just creates high interest in what should be secret. It calls attention to things we don't want attention called to.

Or (4b) he's being held on false pretenses.

Either way, let him go and let the attention of onlookers be dissapated.

[SJackson]

Either way, let him go and let the attention of onlookers be dissapated.

I think the real solution is the release of the letter to the judge, at least to Pollard's attorneys, which was the basis of his sentence, despite the fact that it might cast the use of secret evidence in a poor light.

Then we can all judge whether his sentence was disproportonate.

[Jarhead_22]

Seems to me you make a grand case for Pollard's release.

Regardless of what is known or still secret, Pollard:

1. is an American citizen.
2. signed clearance papers that clearly lay out the penalties for revealing classified information.
3. did, in fact, reveal that classified information to agents of a foreign intelligence service in exchange for cash.

That's espionage. That's life.