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Former Senior U.S. Officials Slam “Unjust Denial of Parole” for Jonathan Pollard (2 articles & link to text of letter)

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Former Senior U.S. Officials Slam “Unjust Denial of Parole” for Jonathan Pollard
(dailyalert.org, Nov. 21, 2014)

Eight former senior U.S. officials have written a letter to President Barack Obama that strongly protests the “unjust denial of parole” for Jonathan Pollard, an American citizen convicted of spying for Israel in 1985. The officials called the U.S. government’s contention that Pollard’s espionage “was the greatest compromise of U.S. security to that date” a “patently false claim.”
The letter was signed by individuals with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Pollard case, including R. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA; Dennis DeConcini, former chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee; David F. Durenburger, also a former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee; Robert C. MacFarlane, former U.S. National Security Advisor; Lawrence J. Korb, former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense; Prof. Angelo Codevilla, a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer; Lee Hamilton, former chair of the House Select Committee on Intelligence; and attorney Bernard W. Nussbaum, former White House counsel. (JNS.org)

 

See also Former Senior U.S. Officials: Charge Used to Keep Pollard in Prison “Patently False”
Former senior U.S. officials said the Parole Commission relied on a “stale, largely discredited, 28-year-old classified memorandum written by former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger” in making its decision. “Mr. Weinberger himself discounted his original damage assessment of the Pollard case in a 2002 interview.”
“It is clear that [Pollard’s] sentence is far more severe than others in the U.S. convicted of the same offense. We are deeply troubled that his grossly disproportionate sentence is now continuing into a 30th year of incarceration, with no end in sight.”  (Ha’aretz)
See also Text of Letter on Pollard Parole (IMRA)

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