First, Teddy Olsen was Pollard's paid mouthpiece. I expect him to zealously argue his case--but I don't take Olsen's "facts" as gospel solely within the context of the pleading, as Olsen would wish.
Olsen completely ignores two key factors in Pollard's sentence: (a) the large volume and high classification level of the material in question (the level of Pollard's "take" put him into the Walker/Ames/Hannsen category), and (b) his refusal to assist in damage assessment.
BTW, in citing G. Gordon Liddy's commutation...kindly note that the G-Man was sentenced to 20 for not coming clean and giving a complete accounting of his misdeeds. When asked, Liddy candidly states that he didn't deserve the commutation he received.
"Let me ask you, PHAPH, which "anti-semitic prison gang" do you palsy-palsy with?"
And there you have it. Left without factual argument, bvw is forced to falsely claim that I associate with anti-semites.
You'd better hope that God was just kidding about that "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" thingie.
Hansen, Ames, the Walker family ... bad people acting with obviously evil motives to place us all at further risk. Not so Pollard. Pollard acted on behalf of our interest as he understood it, and not to place us at risk but to move us away from it. Iraq, until we liberated it, and Iran then and today are and were our enemies. Pollard's acts were against our enemies and on behalf of their perceived enemy, our ally, Israel.