Kissinger asks Obama to release convicted spy Pollard for Israel

[Ichingcarpenter]

JERUSALEM -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is urging President Barack Obama to release an American convicted of spying for Israel 24 years ago


In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Kissinger wrote to Obama, "I believe justice would be served by commuting" Jonathan Pollard's life sentence.


Kissinger's March 3 letter joins other recent calls for Pollard's release from former high-ranking American officials, including former CIA Director R. James Woolsey and former Secretary of State George Shultz

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030702491.html

[malaise]

1. Will that decrepid war criminal ever

croak?

[dipsydoodle]

2. Full background here

Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954 in Galveston, Texas) is a former civilian intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel. He received a life sentence in 1987.

Israel granted Pollard citizenship in 1995, while publicly denying, until 1998, that he was an Israeli spy.<1> Israeli activist groups, as well as high-profile Israeli politicians, have lobbied for his release.<2> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has voiced particularly strong support for Pollard, visiting the convicted spy in prison in 2002.<3><4>

Pollard's 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 in the same period.<5><6>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

Don't suppose he asked for release of the Cuban Five at the same time ? :sarcasm:

[madmax]

3. Why do these people think just because

they once were, they still are.

Go about your business whatever nefarious deeds you're up to now, STFU and crawl back under your rock.

[Scuba]

4. Meanwhile, American hero Bradley Manning continues to be tortured. n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Israeli minister to visit Jonathan Pollard for first time in five years

Social Affairs Minister Moshe Kahlon will be visiting convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in the United States next week, marking the first time in five years an Israeli minister will be visiting Pollard.

Kahlon will visit Pollard as an official representative of the Israeli government, and will be passing on a verbal message to Pollard from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-minister-to-visit-jonathan-pollard-for-first-time-in-five-years-1.347972


But Dennis can't see Manning....who is not convicted
of any crime

Yes, I know its a military prison and that doesn't count
OR DOES IT?

[Sherman A1]

6. Thank You, Mr, Kissinger for your interest in the matter

Now, GO AWAY.