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Should Jonathan Pollard Be Pardoned?

(Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin - In Israel, there is widespread sentiment in favor of releasing Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard who has been imprisoned for 25 years. Israelis, while not enamored of Pollard, think he's been given a raw deal. A Democratic foreign policy hand tells me, "It has become clear in recent years that [former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar] Weinberger and others blamed Pollard for heinous and treasonous acts of betrayal that far exceeded what he was actually guilty of, and what, we now know, were the acts of the traitors [Robert] Hanssen and [Aldrich] Aimes." His point isn't that Pollard shouldn't have been severely punished. Rather, he argues that Pollard has "served four times the length of time typical of someone who has spied for an ally."
2010-12-23 10:30:21
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