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  1. “Most Damaging Spy Operation In US History”.

    Really? Says who? You and Cap Weinberger.

    Weinberger, who was infamously indicted on five counts of perjury for his role in the Iran- Contra scandal, and subsequently pardoned..

    1. @ Wunsch: Not only Weinberger. George Schultz also opposed it as did his entire national security team. Regardless of Weinberger’s past, as defense secretary he was in a far better position to know the damage that Pollard did than you are. George Tenet, Obama’s CIA threatened to quit if Pollard was freed. Tenet was never charged or convicted of any crime. How ya gonna discredit him?

    1. @ Lisa Huges: Now we’re getting into the ‘finer points’ of sex crimes, aren’t we? I understand as a journalist you’re trying to be precise.

      But Virginia Giuffre was 16 and a minor when Epstein pimped her out to Dershowitz (according to Giuffre herself). That’s statutory rape btw. Oh and let’s not forget that D. argued in an op-ed that the age of consent should be lowered to 15. Which would be mighty convenient for him if Giuffre’s charges are true and relieve him of the charge of statutory rape.

      If you want to quibble about the definition of pedophilia and claim Dershowitz didn’t commit it because Giuffre was pre-pubescent, well be my guest. Still a pretty thin reed you have D. clinging to.

      To be precise, we can call him an ephebophile, an adult who has sex with adolescents aged 15-19. But it’s still illegal with a 16 year old. Does that make it any better?

  2. @Richard

    Not only Weinberger. George Schultz also opposed it as did his entire national security team”

    I don’t know what ‘it’ is, but…

    ‘George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of state at the time of Pollard’s activities, has come out publicly in favor of clemency. Similarly, Robert “Bud” McFarlane, who was U.S. national security adviser at that time, has also come out publicly in favor of clemency.’ 

    ‘It is safe to say that these gentlemen know more than anyone about Pollard’s conduct. The fact that they have come out in favor of clemency speaks volumes. Other distinguished Americans have come out publicly in favor of clemency, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former Vice President Dan Quayle, former CIA Director James Woolsey, former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dennis DeConcini, dozens of members of Congress and many others.’

    https://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/22/opinion/lauer-pollard-truth/index.html

    1. @ Wunsch: In 1985, all of the figures you mention above adamantly opposed any sort of clemency and lobbied for charges punishable by a life sentence, which is what he was convicted of.

      Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld, who was in government at the time, opposed clemency as did George Tenet, CIA chief. Unlike the ones you mention, who had long left government service, Tenet & Rumsfeld advocated the same position your figures did when they were in government.

      Those you mention tied themselves closely to the Israel Lobby when they advocated for clemency. In fact, I’m fairly certain many of them were paid for their advocacy. Though we can never know that since none of them registered as agents of Israel (who helped orchestrate this campaign) or the Lobby. They were no longer independent.

  3. Saying about any man or action “Most Damaging Spy Operation in U.S. History” is a big hill to climb and proof. One or 10 man saying so does not prove anything, it gives the opinion or a few indiviual as high ranked as may be.
    I would assume stealing for nuclear secrets of the US by the soviets would be consider by some as a greater damage to whatever Polard has stolen.

    Progressives like to talk about him only b/c of the Israeli connection. It is so obvious I could hand you, your opinion before you spelled it out.

    1. @ Ariel: Here is the then US defense secretary:

      It is difficult for me, even in the so-called ‘year of the spy,’” wrote Weinberger, “to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant in view of the breadth, the critical importance to the U.S., and the high sensitivity of the information he sold to Israel. That information was intentionally reserved by the United States for its own use, because to disclose it, to anyone or any nation, would cause the greatest harm to our national security.”

      So this is no “Hill” at all as you claim. It’s a slam dunk.

      Further, Pollard did in effect steal for the Soviets since they were the ultimate recipient of those top secret documents he stole. He also offered documents to numerous other countries, which refused them.

      Of course Pollard is spoken of because of the “Israeli connection.” That’s who he stole for. If he stole for the UK or France and expressed his admiration and devotion to them as he did to Israel, he would be known for that. But he didn’t.

    1. @ Wunsch:

      some of the names I mentioned must have been bought by Lobby money.

      Oh I’m sure all of them were bought in some manner or other by the Lobby. Most of them are now high-priced consultants, lobbyists or lawyers. They know how to earn their pay and who has the money to pay them.

      Dershowitz, one of Pollard’s lawyers, doesn’t come cheap. Killers, traitors and pedophiles pay top dollar.

      No more posts in this thread.

  4. Jonathan Pollard clemency “George Shultz” Robert “Bud” McFarlane

    Robert “Bud” McFarlane, Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser at the time, who wrote to President Barack Obama on behalf of Pollard, saying that Weinberger had a history of “unbalanced reasoning” when it came to Israel.

  5. Reply to RS:
    See link, Bud McFarlane ran Oliver North in the Irangate scandal and played a role in the bloody wars in the America’s in support of dictators. Much easier than handling democracies … capitalism loves Trump’s 2nd term … following the 1876 election strategy. Worst of the worse.

  6. The benefit [?] of leaving the post-Pollard era of mistrust behind.

    Jonathan Pollard and 35 years of US-Israeli intelligence – analysis | JPost |

    Put simply, with Soleimani, Israel did a good deal of the leg work and the US pushed the button, whereas with al-Masri, the US did a good deal of the leg work and Israel pushed the button (according to foreign sources.)

    Who pulled the trigger and who did the preliminary spying in each case may have had more to do with wanting to take credit or avoid credit based on geopolitical considerations.

    But the two sides were working together on operations in real-time with major strategic implications.

  7. as usual israel is the golden hideaway of humanities garbage such as this crap and others type of leviev, crazy… and not to mention our jewel pedophile .
    and to do that aipac extracts the yearly blackmail

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