PM asks for Pollard’s release as part of freeze deal

jpost.com ^ | 11/20/10 | gill hoffman

[Lancey Howard]

Free Pollard now.

Agreed, but only if the exact time and place of his release was made public. I have a feeling that p.o.s. wouldn't make it to a cab.

[papertyger]

Was he successful ?

That wasn't the question.

If Pollard claims he did what he did as a result of Bobby Ray Inman unilaterally violating our agreement with Israel in retaliation for the Osirak strike, and you have to admit that's in fact what Inman did, Occam's Razor tells us everything else you have to say about Pollard's motivation is camouflage for your own agenda.

[dennisw]

Pollard did it partly for money...But not wholly for money. He did it a lot more because as a Jew he thought Israel was getting screwed by US withholding vital intelligence from an ally and he was in a position to rectify that a bit. Spying? Yes but not like spying for an outright enemy like USSR. By the way after some years of weakness Russia is back trying to screw us mostly for vengeance over the Afghan war where we armed the Mujaheddin to drive out the Russians and bankrupting them.

[original Blackbag]

What agenda...? You should look in the mirror on that one. Oh yeah, we are suppose to take Pollard at his word after he got caught and ignore all the facts that were documented as occurring prior to him getting caught. Pollard rationalized his betrayal with this ilk. Oh yeah he was quite a patriot taking money, jewelry etc for his services..Never mind he offered US Intel on the open market to South Africa and other countries....

He was broke, he enjoyed an expensive lifestyle including a nose candy habit...Occam's Razor suggests money was leading motivator. Just because he is now a cause celeb and so deluded in his own mind, changes nothing.

[papertyger]

Oh yeah, we are suppose to take Pollard at his word after he got caught and ignore all the facts that were documented as occurring prior to him getting caught. Pollard rationalized his betrayal with this ilk.

Did he betray the US before, or after Inman decided foreign policy was his prerogative?

[Non-Sequitur]

You get all weepy and gooey when a democratic nation uses closed door trials to protect itself against barbarian Muslims.

Vanunu is a Jew.

[HearMe]

His motivation is not the issue.

His Constitutional rights were violated when the judge and the Israel hating Casper Weinberger engaged in an ex parte communication with the judge.

Pollard was convicted of one, ONE, only, ONE count: conspiracy to deliver national defense information to a foreign government.

That information was about Arab nations, it is now known for certain that he didn’t harm the United States.

The issue is whether he has been in prison for a sufficient time considering his crime, His motivation is insignificant.

[Non-Sequitur]

Pollard was convicted of one, ONE, only, ONE count: conspiracy to deliver national defense information to a foreign government.

You mean he plead guilty to one, ONE, only, ONE count.

Pollard is due for parole in Novemeber 2015. You can have him then.