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2020-11-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

US terminates Jonathan Pollard’s parole, ex-spy free to travel to Israel

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 From Adm. Sumner Shapiro's (DNI 78-82) Wikipedia page:
Shortly into his career as an intelligence analyst, convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard had his security clearance reduced by Shapiro after presenting a plan to garner intelligence from South Africa. According to the Washington Post, Sumner dismissed Pollard as a "kook". "I wish the hell I'd fired him," Shapiro would later opine.[4]

Shapiro, who was himself Jewish, stated that he was troubled by the support of Jewish organizations for Pollard: "We work so hard to establish ourselves and to get where we are, and to have somebody screw it up... and then to have Jewish organizations line up behind this guy and try to make him out a hero of the Jewish people, it bothers the hell out of me".[4]

The Admiral was among four former directors of Naval intelligence (alongside William Studeman, John Butts and Thomas Brooks) who wrote a livid response to Israeli negotiations to free Pollard, which was published in the Washington Post:

We... feel obligated to go on record with the facts regarding Pollard in order to dispel the myths that have arisen from this clever public relations campaign... aimed at transforming Pollard from greedy, arrogant betrayer of the American national trust into Pollard, committed Israeli patriot[5]

Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2020-11-21 08:28|| 2020-11-21 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember Pollard's skank wife (who did five years in the nick, IIRC) being interviewed by Mike Wallace. She compared prison to Auschwitz. Even Mike Wallace found that too much.

In any case, just get this f'n pig Pollard out of here.

Posted by Clem 2020-11-21 09:06|| 2020-11-21 09:06|| Front Page Top

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