By GIL HOFFMAN 10/17/2010 00:56
Jonathan Pollard’s American attorneys, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, filed a new petition for clemency on Friday, asking that US President Barack Obama commute Pollard’s life sentence to the 25 years he has already served,
The Jerusalem Post has learned ht the petition comes amid a wave of calls for the release of the Israeli agent and following new revelations of apparent government malfeasance made public by senior officials with first-hand involvement in the case. This was former minister Rafi Eitan and former US assistant secretary of defense Lawrence J. Korb.
Eitan, who was Pollard’s handler, revealed on Thursday after press time that the US had violated an oral agreement with Israel to release Pollard after 10 years. In an interview with Israel Radio, Eitan also accused the US of deliberately perpetrating a travesty of justice by violating Pollard’s plea agreement and slapping him with what he called a grossly disproportionate life sentence.
He pointed out that at the time of Pollard’s sentencing in 1987, secret charges were laid against Pollard blaming him for the crimes of a Russian mole within American intelligence, Aldrich Ames. Pollard was neither informed of these charges nor given a chance to challenge them in a court of law.
Pollard was an unrepentant espionage agent. The Us let his wife, who was involved with the conspiracy, emigrate to Israel. Once she got there she tried to make her husband out as a martyr. Israel tried to spring Pollard out of jail when Bush was prez, and several cabinet level people including SECDEF Bill Gates said they would resign if Bush freed Pollard.
Pollards freedom is hardly worth a temporary building freeze in Israel, but perhaps for a permanent peace treaty between Palestine and Israel. Rightardia believes that would be impossible while the Likud government of Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is in power.
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Jonathan Pollard’s American attorneys, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, filed a new petition for clemency on Friday, asking that US President Barack Obama commute Pollard’s life sentence to the 25 years he has already served,
The Jerusalem Post has learned ht the petition comes amid a wave of calls for the release of the Israeli agent and following new revelations of apparent government malfeasance made public by senior officials with first-hand involvement in the case. This was former minister Rafi Eitan and former US assistant secretary of defense Lawrence J. Korb.
No, OMG, no!
Eitan, who was Pollard’s handler, revealed on Thursday after press time that the US had violated an oral agreement with Israel to release Pollard after 10 years. In an interview with Israel Radio, Eitan also accused the US of deliberately perpetrating a travesty of justice by violating Pollard’s plea agreement and slapping him with what he called a grossly disproportionate life sentence.
He pointed out that at the time of Pollard’s sentencing in 1987, secret charges were laid against Pollard blaming him for the crimes of a Russian mole within American intelligence, Aldrich Ames. Pollard was neither informed of these charges nor given a chance to challenge them in a court of law.
Pollard was an unrepentant espionage agent. The Us let his wife, who was involved with the conspiracy, emigrate to Israel. Once she got there she tried to make her husband out as a martyr. Israel tried to spring Pollard out of jail when Bush was prez, and several cabinet level people including SECDEF Bill Gates said they would resign if Bush freed Pollard.
Pollards freedom is hardly worth a temporary building freeze in Israel, but perhaps for a permanent peace treaty between Palestine and Israel. Rightardia believes that would be impossible while the Likud government of Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is in power.
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