In comments over the weekend at the Aspen Security Forum, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says that the Justice Department “won’t interfere” if the administration decides to go through with reported plans to release spy Jonathan Pollard to Israel.
Pollard, a Texas-born civilian employee for the US Navy, was sentenced to life in prison for spying on behalf of Israel. According to his wife, he believed that he had a “moral obligation” as a Jew to spy for the Israeli government. Israel granted him citizenship after his conviction, and has been demanding his release for decades.
Though the reports on Pollard’s potential release clearly link the possibility to efforts to placate the Netanyahu government over its intense opposition to the Iran deal, Lynch insisted there was no relation at all, and that the whole matter was simply coming up because Pollard is first eligible for parole in November.
Israeli officials have insisted that they want Pollard, but won’t be placated by his release about anything. They have also insisted they consider his ongoing detention as a spy caught red-handed as a diplomatic insult to the Israeli government, and accused the US of “mistreating” him in detention.
Loretta trying to get an early start at being as incompetent and corrupt, or more, as her Eric Contempt Holder.
She does not want to get her ass fired.
It was the intelligence agencies which influenced the judge to bust Pollard with a heavy sentence, not the Justice Department.
It was the intelligence agencies which stopped his release last time, not the Justice Dept.
We have not yet heard from the people who matter in this. Neither it seems has Obama.
Do not release him the Zionist do not control America or do they
The NYT just now reports this is a done deal, decision made.
This man is a murdered, a multiple murderer, not just "a spy." He revealed things that disclosed agents in place passing us vital information. He got them identified and killed.
He did it for money and ego. He offered it to several countries, not just Israel.
He ought to have been executed.
Now there should be a drone with his name on it. Hopefully for just exactly the moment when he is shaking hands with Netanyahu.
Pollards impending release is further proof, as if any more were needed, that the zionists control our country at virtually every level, government, media, banking. The hard truth is that the Israel firsters are a treasonous fifth column on behalf of a foreign, and heinous, country. America would be immeasurably better off without them.
I have no sympathy for Pollard or his Zionist paymasters or his fans. I have actively opposed his early release or preferential treatment for almost 30 years. That is why I know that since he was sentenced his release date on the Bureau of Prisons website hs been listed as 11/21/2015. This should not be big news and has nothing to do with the Iran agreement.
Under federal law when Pollard was sentenced in 1985, anyone serving a life sentenced is automatically released without conditions after 30 years unless the government proves that they are likely to commit other crimes or that they violated prison regulations.
The article inaccurately states that Pollard will first become eligible for parole in November. He has been eligible for parole for almost 15 tears but he has refused to apply. because he would have to express remorse and if he was paroled he would likely have conditions that would make it impossible for him to emigrate to Israel or to accept compensation or rewards for his treason. That is why Pollard and his supporters insisted that he receive amnesty instead..
Now, after 30 years, Pollard does not have to apply and he will be released automatically. He will emigrate to Israel and be a rich man and a hero to the Zionists there. That sucks.
But our constitution absolutely prohibits bills of attainder. We can't change the law after someone has been charged and sentenced. That would be absolute tyranny and the founders prohibited it even before they enacted the Bill of Rights. .
The big issue is not Pollard by the $3.7 Obama wants to add to Israel's obscene military aid package, the control of our foreign policy by Israel through its lobby, and the grovelling by our representatives in Congress who treat Netanyahu like he is Prime Minister of the USA. But most of all we need to uicover the real story about Israel's nukes..
Sometimes I wonder if the overblown concern about Pollard's release is a false flag operation to throw the anti war movement off the scent of Israel's warmongering and its nuclear capacity.