CONGRESSIONAL LETTER URGES OBAMA TO RELEASE SPY JONATHAN POLLARD
19. Nov, 2010
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Jonathan Pollard, the spy who was a master
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Jonathan Jay Pollard, the former civilian Naval intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to spying for Israel, was sentenced to life in prison in 1987. According to Ian Williams’ article in the July/Aug. 1993 Washington Report (see link below): “although Pollard insists he was motivated by concern for Israeli security, he was paid (and is still being paid) a handsome salary by the Israeli government. His Israeli handlers also provided gifts and trips to Europe for Pollard and his wife, Anne. The severity of Pollard’s sentence was based on secret testimony by [then-Defense Secretary] Caspar Weinberger, who is on record as saying that Pollard was lucky–he should have received three life sentences. Pollard provided Israeli intelligence with more than 1,000 classified U.S. documents, some consisting of hundreds of pages, comprising overall some 360 cubic feet of paper.
“According to American investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, Pollard sold information on nuclear targets in the Soviet Union to Israel. U.S. defense sources suggest that what caused the most bitter anger against Pollard in the Pentagon and throughout the American intelligence community was the fact that the information compromised human agents in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. U.S. intelligence sources have concluded that the Israeli government bartered this information to the Soviet Union.”
Until 1998 Israel publicly denied that Pollard was an Israeli spy–even though it granted him citizenship in 1995.
The most recent salvo in the relentless campaign to release Pollard is a letter circulated by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and signed by more than 30 Democratic members of the (U.S) House of Representatives calling on President Barack Obama to grant clemency to the confessed spy. Please contact the members of Congress who signed the letter reprinted below to express your opinion on their advocacy for someone who has done incalculable damage to this country. Express your appreciation to members of Congress who did not sign, and urge them to resist pressure from their Israel-first colleagues. And write President Obama to register your disapproval of this letter, which was written in coordination with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, National Council of Young Israel, B’nai B””rith International, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, the Zionist Organization of America, Agudath Israel, and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer, a Christian Zionist whose non-profit organization “American Values” seems to be more concerned with Israel than the United States.
November 18, 2010
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
We write to urge you to use your constitutional power to extend clemency to Jonathan Pollard, thereby releasing him from prison after the time he has already served. Mr. Pollard committed serious crimes and he has expressed remorse. 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. Those who have such views are of course entitled to continue to have them, but the clemency grant has nothing to do with that.
We believe that there has been a great disparity from the standpoint of justice between the amount of time Mr. Pollard has served and the time that has been served — or not served at all — by many others who were found guilty of similar activity on behalf of nations that, like Israel, are not adversarial to us. It is indisputable in our view that the nearly twenty-five years that Mr. Pollard has served stands as a sufficient time from the standpoint of either punishment or deterrence.
In summary, we see clemency for Mr. Pollard as an act of compassion justified by the way others have been treated by our justice system. We urge you to use the clemency power in this case.
Sincerely,
Barney Frank (D-MA)
Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY)
Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ)
Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
Robert A. Brady (D-PA)
Danny Davis (D-IL)
Theodore E. Deutsch (D-FL)
Eliot L. Engel (D-NY)
John J. Hall (D-NY)
James A. Himes (D-CT)
Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY)
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI)
John Lewis (D-GA)
Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY)
Michael E. McMahon (D-NY)
Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY)
Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
John W. Olver (D-MA)
Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ)
Donald M. Payne (D-NJ)
Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
Laura Richardson (D-CA)
Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)
Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA)
Brad Sherman (D-CA)
Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS)
Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
Niki Tsongas (D-MA)
Henry A. Waxman (D-CA)
Anthony Weiner (D-NY)
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jerusalem Post, Nov. 19, 2010: www.jpost.com/home/article.aspx?id=195988>;
Ian Williams, “A Tale of Two Spies,” July/August 1993 Washington Report, p. 13: http://www.wrmea.org/component/content/article/149-1993-july-august/7255-a-tale-of-two-spies.html
Paul Findley, “Clinton Under Pressure to Grant Clemency to Pollard,” June 1993 Washington Report, p. 15: http://www.wrmea.org/component/content/article/148-1993-june/7215-clinton-under-pressure-to-grant-clemency-to-pollard.html
Source : Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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just shows total control of the CONgress by the Knesset, that’s all this shows.
every name on that list is a zionist pile of crap…to the last a-hole.
what’s astonishing is that the stupid moron’s in the U.S.S.A. haven’t yet figured out that Israel and the ROTHSCHILDS own the U.S.S.A., and it’s fake, utterly bogus and sham political system there.
but I digress. What I wanted to point out is that Pollard should be let go, and at the same time, every piece of crap on this list should be mandatorily DEPORTED to Israel, without cleaning out their campaign war chests before they leave with chains on their ankles. And once they’re in Tel Aviv, they should be forever banished from the U.S. or face LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR TREASON, if not HANGING.
this kind of treason by U.S. government scum has to stop. It really does.
IT HAS TO STOP!
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I hope that they never let that traitor go free, but i will bet you that they do. I wonder what would happen if someone was spying on Israel. we all know he would be dead. Hopefully Obama doesn’t cave in. I cannot understand why members of congress would even consider setting him free. We have become the lackey,s of Israel. I will bet anything that if anyone else was caught spying they would never see the light of day.
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How are you enjoying watching your country swirl down the toilet, Amerika?
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All Democrats! Great strategy, guys.
In fact, Pollard is a distraction; it matters very little whether he is released or kept in prison. He was a walk-on, not recruited by professional spies. He was probably the least talented spy in history. He drew attention to himself with obnoxious and disruptive behavior at work. His boss was desperate to fire him, which is difficult with federal employees unless they mishandle classified information. His boss decided to investigate and the rest is history.
If Pollard had been a reasonably intelligent and careful spy he would still be spying today. I believe there are hundreds or thousands like him who ARE still spying. They are careful to be good employees, never make enemies, and never draw attention to themselves. They don’t send more money than they should. Their motivation is to help Israel, not themselves. Some are not Jewish. We must assume Israel HAS virtually ALL of our secrets. What to do? Witch hunt? No! The answer is to follow Ron Paul’s advice. Stop playing police force to the world. Stop manipulating other countries. Bring our troops home from Europe, Japan, Korea, and end the wars NOW. Maintain a military to defend OUR country, the high seas (not other countries’ coastlines) and that’s ALL. In that case we should have few secrets that Israel wants to steal.
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It is the responsibility of every American to defend America from it’s enemies; foreign AND DOMESTIC. Have you heard anyone speaking spanish lately? Have any congressmen been seen visiting AIPAC(a non-registered foreign agent/provocateur.) Keep your eyes open, there are spies everywhere!
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Then the dems wonder why people are leaving the party? The affiliation of the signatorys to this stunning letter is the poster child reason!
Note the date of the letter…Barney Frank made sure it was sent to the president AFTER the midterm elections..
Now the repubs have documentation to soundbite the hell out of the dems in the next election. Lets wait and see IF this traitorous letter is exploited by the repubs.
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pete Reply:
December 13th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
What do you expect from barney franks. The thought anything being stuck in ones ass turns him on.Especially someone as cute as Bibi netanyahhoo. Aint nothing gonna change girls & boys, if you want to survive in politics in America, you have to show how good a Lewinsky you can do on Netanyahoo. hey that rhymes, I think i will set to music. It aint just the democrats, the republicans will do the same thing. I wish Ron Paul were younger, he won every debate he was in. that’s why they did not invite him back, he would have handed them their asses.
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I don’t know why people haven’t figured out that the DINO’s are the same as the GOP piles of shit, and that the very simple solution for not just the U.S., but every country who is OWNED by Israel / Rothschilds, is to UNPLUG THE CENTRAL BANKS and ISSUE YOUR OWN CURRENCY, screw the USURY of more than 300 years of war mongering b.s. by the totally co-opted assholes you voted into office or thought you voted into office.
The politicians are meat puppets of the oligarchy who is destroying the nation, they are NOT the prime targets to strike.
Till the FED is shut down, and the people wake up to the USURY, and insist on getting the money out of politics, there is no hope.
The solution is very simple. UNPLUG THE FED. Sever all ties to Israel. Embargo and DO NOT TRADE with any nation who does business with a ROTHSCHILDS OWNED CENTRAL BANKING STRUCTURE.
that’s the solution. These filthy vermin are nasty suckers, but until we shut down the MAIN PARASITE which is ROTHSCHILDS BANKING, Israel will continue to butt bugger everyone because this is the home that the British Crown gave the ROTHSCHILDS to screw us all with and from, beyond their banking shit holes they hoard the hard earned wealth they steal from everyone with USURY.
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