
Originally Posted by
Mikhail-u
Again, your dishonest approach. The same article:
"The median sentence for the offense Pollard committed - one count of passing non-injurious classified information to an ally - is two to four years" [16]. Although Pollard pled guilty as part of a plea bargain, he was shown no leniency and was given the maximum sentence. Pollard was never charged, indicted or convicted of treason.
Pollard maintains that he provided only information that, at the time, he believed was vital to Israeli security and that was being withheld by The Pentagon, in violation of a 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries regarding the sharing of vital security intelligence. According to Pollard, this included data on Soviet arms shipments to Syria, Iraqi and Syrian chemical weapons, the Pakistani atomic bomb project, and Libyan air defense systems [17]
Since then, however, he has publicly expressed remorse for operating outside the law:...
In recent years, others have argued that Pollard's punishment is too harsh. Caspar Weinberger, who was the driving force behind Pollard's life sentence, has stated that the case was a minor problem made much larger than it really was. In an interview in 2002, [18] Weinberger was asked why he had omitted all mention of Pollard in his memoirs. Weinberger replied, "Because it was, in a sense, a very minor matter but made very important." Asked to elaborate, Weinberger repeated, "As I say, the Pollard matter was comparatively minor. It was made far bigger than its actual importance."[19]