[af_vet_rr]

I do not condone in any way shape or form what he did, but enough is enough. Nobody died, the secrets he passed to Israel were not that critical, and we have plenty of other fish to fry.

First, unless you were his attorney or directly involved with the prosecution, you have absolutely no idea what information he was passing along in the thousands of documents had passed on to his handlers.

Second, he's a traitor and he knows what he was doing was wrong - doesn't matter if it's Israel or Iran or Russia.

Third, he was removing classified information from secure locations and was pretty sloppy with its handling, creating additional security risks in addition his passing it on to third party agents.

Fourth, he did it for money. This wasn't somebody out to help Israel like he claimed, this was somebody who wanted money for information he had access to or he wanted to benefit financially in other ways, such as helping his wife's business.

There is one other thing - Pollard could have been giving information to Russians, Iranians, etc. and just been told he was giving it to Israelis. Deception was involved on many levels and he could have easily been deceived.

I can't believe you have the nerve to come onto a forum populated with military and ex-military personnel and act like it's not a big deal.

[Ronin]

Look FRiend, I am a 13 year, medically discharged, Navy veteran myself, but I am also pragmatic realist in a lot of ways. Compared to some of the other espionage failures we have suffered — and ANYTIME a spy gets close enough to grab any goodies, that’s a failure — this guy is chickenfeed.

We’ve fed him for 24 odd years, anything he ever knew or was ever passed to anyone is so long obsolete most of it is reported to already be on the Internet. George Shultz, a man of the greatest integrity (even though he’s not always as Conservative as I want him to be), has said that Pollard’s release would not be harmful to the interests of the United States. And Shultz knows exactly what Pollard had access too and passed.

Suspend the rest of his sentence, yank his citizenship, take him to the airport, boot him out and make sure it’s clearly understood he is not ever coming back — or if he does, he goes right back in the clink.

He’s an irritant issue at best. In case you haven’t been listening and looking, we are somewhat short of friends in that area of the world, and after four years of the Bamster, they deserve a break. Besides, he’s due for parole in 2015, you think the libs won’t fall over themselves to let him go?

Actually, the only thing I am worried about at this point in time is that the Bamster might think of this himself and use it to draw the Jews back into the fold — just at the time that Republicans are starting to gain some traction.

Grow up!