To Save Talks, US May Free Israeli Spy

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With Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on the brink of collapse, the US has pulled out a major bargaining chip: Jailed spy Jonathan Pollard. The former civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy is serving a life sentence for spying for Israel and the Obama administration is considering releasing him early to help get the talks back on track, officials tell the Washington Post. John Kerry arrived in Israel yesterday to try to save talks stalled over the release of Palestinian prisoners, reports the New York Times.

Pollard, 59, received a life sentence in 1987 and will be eligible for parole in November next year. The Israeli government, which granted him citizenship in 1995, has long lobbied for his release, but analysts believe the chances of him actually going free any time soon are slim, the Christian Science Monitor finds. "No other spy in the history of the United States stole so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short period of time," retired Navy lawyer Spike Bowman, the senior legal adviser to Navy intelligence at the time of the case, said in 2010

http://www.newser.com/story/184620/to-save-talks-us-may-free-israeli-spy.html

 

[Digga38]

Pollard? Obama better fukkin not

 

[godkiller]

They better not fukking release him.

 

[ORDER_66]

I didn't even know israel spied on the US. Considering they are close military allies in alot of projects. What secrets would they want anyways?!

 

[godkiller]

I didn't even know israel spied on the US. Considering they are close military allies in alot of projects. What secrets would they want anyways?!

The government obviously doesn't release everything to "allies". The government gives aid when and where it wants. There are many secrets a foreign spy can steal from the US.

 

[KeysT]

I didn't even know israel spied on the US. Considering they are close military allies in alot of projects. What secrets would they want anyways?!

I think in this guys case Israel was after US intelligence on the Muslim powers in the region around Israel.

 

[Digga38]

I didn't even know israel spied on the US. Considering they are close military allies in alot of projects. What secrets would they want anyways?!

lol.....put the kool aid down bruh

 

[Digga38]

I think in this guys case Israel was after US intelligence on the Muslim powers in the region around Israel.

lol be for real....we couldnt tell them anything they dont already know in regards to the middle east

 

[KeysT]

lol be for real....we couldnt tell them anything they dont already know in regards to the middle east

In the late 80's we could... which is when all this went down.

 

[Digga38]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/to-save-talks-us-may-free-israeli-spy.202338/#post-7884995

In an op-ed for The Washington Post written in 1998, former past directors of Naval Intelligence, William Studeman, Sumner Shapiro, John L. Butts and Thomas Brooks, argued that as Pollard's case never went to trial (due to his plea deal) it never became public that Pollard "offered classified information to three other countries before working for the Israelis and that he offered his services to a fourth country while he was spying for Israel." The op-ed also argued that the "sheer volume" of documents passed on by Pollard was almost unrivaled, and his support was only due to a "clever public relations campaign."

 

[Digga38]

Obama will let everyone know who he is working for if this goes down

 

[Kritic]

Obama will let everyone know who he is working for if this goes down

might as well let him go since we got israeli citizens working for the govt and federal reserve..


he will be released..

 

[Digga38]

might as well let him go since we got israeli citizens working for the govt and federal reserve..


he will be released..

the Israeli near ownership of the US govt comes more transparent by the day...

 

[theworldismine13]

Dumb idea

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Why does our govt keep sucking Israeli dikk?