[Asclepius]

... How long will we allow ourselves to be sitting ducks to accommodate foreign interests ...

Indeed. Only Pollard is an American citizen: our interests are not foreign to him--or at least they shouldn't have been. Pollard compromised agents on the ground, some of whom were killed; he should remain where he is at least until the seventh angel of the apocalypse makes his grim entrance.

[MACD]

That I am the wife of an Israeli agent in captivity.

Case closed! Throw away the key!

[TomB]

Rot in hell, Pollard.

[dark_lord]

A spy is a spy. Regardless whether Israel is our "ally" (sometimes" he is/was a spy. Let him remain in prison until he dies (hopefully a long time from now.)

[laconic]

I'd like to ask her just why if her husband acted so virtuously, he needed tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from Israeil intelligence to betray this country. In return, the Israelis sold much of the intelligence to the Russians and who knows who was killed. Let him rot in jail, and I hope its not one of the country club prison Club Feds to appease his incessant supporters. Take a poll; those in favor of Pollard's release are probably less than 10 percent of the American population.

[American Soldier]

Some people are tempted to say that actions in favor of Israel contrary to US law may be justified as principled violations.

This may be true in the case of an American citizen who violates US law by overtly going to Israel and fighting against terrorists.

However, espionage is completely different. You never know exactly what will be done with the information. In fact (as I learned during an intelligence briefing as a PRIVATE in the National Guard), Russians have been known to pose as Israelis in order to get information out of Americans (i.e., "C'mon, you guys are supposed to help us! We're the good guys!")

The Taiwanese are another such case ... They engage in espionage in order to save money they'd otherwise have to spend buying it from us. Some American kid with info who happened to be sympathetic to the Taiwanese cause might be tempted to give them the info... But the person you're talking to could just as easily be lying to you, in reality having been sent by Beijing.

[CARepubGal]

Pollard can just rot in the underground cells in Marion Supermax. He deserves his fate.

[waxhaw]

Pollard betrayed his nation, he did it consciously and he received money from Israel as the price of his betrayals. Now he's paying the price to those fellow American citizens whom he betrayed; I wonder what part of this Esther doesn't understand.

[dfwgator]

This is precisely the reason convicted spies have to be executed IMMEDIATELY. So that they cannot be used as bait.

[Another Galt]

I am a staunch defender of Israel these days, but Pollard should have been executed for his treason. He should certainly never get out of prison.

Who are these people who think that Americans are free to make individual "principled" decisions about spying for "allies"? I would hope that some heavily tatooed man has made Pollard his b-tch, though I doubt it...

[LibKill]

Traitors like Pollard must never be rewarded.

Let him die in prison.

[Senator Pardek]

How long will we allow ourselves to be sitting ducks to accommodate foreign interests?

Lol...

[Senator Pardek]

IMRA: Isn´t Israel assisting Jonathan?

ESTHER POLLARD: Not at all. Not financially.

Well, not anymore...

[bvw]

He served his time, more time than most in any of comparative situation. Free him.