of embarrassing documents released but not a single one, after all
this time, has been proven to jeopardize security in any way.
On Dec 20, 12:17 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No way Newt Gingrich, or any sitting or future American President ever
> gives Pollard, or any other Israeli a pardon, clemency, or release from
> imprisonment, unless the individual is on his or her death bed. The
> outcry from the American people would be overwhelming.
>
> I suspect that this is nothing more than campaign rhetoric, in order to
> muster Jewish support.
>
> Keith
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:05 AM, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com
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> > wrote:
> > Former Speaker-of-the-House and Republican presidential hopeful Newt
> > Gingrich said Thursday that he was 'leaning towards clemency' for
> > convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
> > While in office in the 1990s, Gingrich, who is currently ahead in the
> > polls over the five other GOP candidates, spoke adamantly against any
> > such pardon.
>
> > Judge Aubrey Robinson, Jr., imposed a life sentence after hearing a
> > "damage-assessment memorandum" from the Secretary of Defense.
> > Pollard was a US citizen, born on US soil, but his greed and loyalty
> > to Israel was more important than his American citizenship. He should
> > have been executed or continuously tortured for information.
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> > Israel granted Pollard citizenship in 1995, but publicly denied that
> > he was an Israeli spy until 1998. Israeli activist groups, as well as
> > high-profile Israeli politicians, have lobbied for his release. His
> > case was later linked to that of Ben-ami Kadish, another U.S. national
> > who pleaded guilty to charges of passing classified information to
> > Israel. He renounced his United States citizenship and is now solely
> > an Israeli citizen. He will be deported to Israel in the event that he
> > is released from prison.
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> > Pollard's espionage was discovered in 1985 when a co-worker
> > anonymously reported his removal of classified material from the NIS.
> > The FBI again became involved. A short time later Pollard's neighbor
> > began calling around the military intelligence community (he was a
> > naval officer) asking what to do with the 70 lb suitcase full of
> > highly classified material that Pollard's wife, Anne, had given him.
> > Prior to sentencing, Pollard and his wife Anne gave media interviews
> > in which they defended their spying and attempted to rally Jewish
> > Americans to their cause. In a 60 Minutes interview, Anne said, "I
> > feel my husband and I did what we were expected to do, and what our
> > moral obligation was as Jews. Aviem Sella, Pollard's initial Israeli
> > contact, was eventually indicted on three counts of espionage by an
> > American court.[35] Israel refused to allow him to be interviewed
> > unless he was granted immunity. America refused because of Israel's
> > previous failure to cooperate as promised. Israel then refused to
> > extradite Sella, instead giving him command of a prestigious air force
> > base. The U.S. Congress responded by threatening to cut aid to Israel,
> > at which point Sella stepped down.
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> > know the enemy:
> > When asked to return the stolen material, the Israelis reportedly only
> > turned over a few dozen low-classified documents. At the time, the
> > Americans knew that Pollard had passed tens of thousands of documents.
> > When American investigators traveled to Israel they were treated with
> > hostility from the moment they arrived in Israel to the moment they
> > left. The Israelis created a schedule designed to wear them down,
> > including many hours per day of commuting in blacked out buses on
> > rough roads, and frequent switching of buses leaving them without
> > adequate time to sleep and preventing them from sleeping on the
> > commute. The identity of Pollard's original handler, Sella, was
> > withheld. All questions had to be translated into Hebrew and answered
> > in Hebrew, and then translated back into English, even though all the
> > parties spoke perfect English. The Commander Jerry Agee remembers
> > that, even as he departed the airport, airport security made a point
> > of informing him that "you will never be coming back here again"; Agee
> > found various items had been stolen from his luggage, upon his return
> > to the United States. The abuse came not only from the guards and
> > officials, but also the Israeli media.
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> > The New York Times reported on 21 September 2010 that Netanyahu
> > proposed that Pollard be released as a reward to Israel for extending
> > by three months a halt to new settlements in occupied territories.
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> > In 2010 representatives Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Edolphus Towns (D-
> > N.Y.), Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) wrote a
> > letter which "notes the positive impact that a grant of clemency would
> > have in Israel, as a strong indication of the goodwill of our nation
> > towards Israel and the Israeli people", On November 18, 2010, 39
> > members of Congress submitted a Plea Of Clemency to the White House on
> > behalf of Pollard, asking the president for his immediate release:
> > "Such an exercise of the clemency power would not in any way imply
> > doubt about his guilt, nor cast any aspersions on the process by which
> > he was convicted.
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> > Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, wrote in a letter to
> > Barack Obama, "I believe justice would be served by commuting."
>
> > Lawrence Korb, former assistant secretary of defense under Ronald
> > Reagan, has called on the Obama Administration to grant clemency to
> > Polard:
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> > In September 2011, when asked by a group of rabbis whether the Obama
> > administration was considering the release of Pollard, Vice President
> > Joe Biden responded, "President Obama was considering clemency, but I
> > told him, 'Over my dead body are we going to let him out before his
> > time. If it were up to me, he would stay in jail for life.'
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