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Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard released from U.S. prison after 30 years

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Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard released from U.S. prison after 30 years - LA Times

his five-year parole compels him to spend that time in the USA
... According to Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Eliot L. Engel, Pollard is willing to renounce his U.S. citizenship to facilitate his being sent to Israel. The two New York Democrats wrote a letter to Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch asking her to grant permission.
The White House has previously said President Obama has no plans to alter the terms of Pollard's parole. ...
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DiGenova said Pollard passed the Israelis thousands of documents that had nothing to do with Israel’s enemies, including technical information about U.S. information systems and satellites, photographs, maps and classified manuals.
“It was a gigantic amount of information and stuff of the highest top-secret code word classification,” DiGenova said. He said that Israel bartered the information to the Soviet Union in return for the release of Soviet Jews to Israel, compromising agents who quickly disappeared. ...
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wonder if the traitor will survive his five years in the states before he can emigrate to israel
 
Blue_State said:
What good is having him on parole in the US? If he wants to leave I say we let him leave. He served his 30 years.
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:shrug: I can only assume it's part of his punishment.
 
cpwill said:
:shrug: I can only assume it's part of his punishment.
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It is parole. He is going to renounce his US citizenship. What are we gaining by having him on parole? Just wasting time. Get him out of here and now he isn't our problem. On parole, if he is motivated enough, he could leave. I am just saying, why not just let him leave?
 
Blue_State said:
It is parole. He is going to renounce his US citizenship. What are we gaining by having him on parole? Just wasting time. Get him out of here and now he isn't our problem. On parole, if he is motivated enough, he could leave. I am just saying, why not just let him leave?
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I agree. He served his time. Let's give him his one-way ticket home.
 
Parole is part of the sentence as he demonstrates his fitness or not for actual release.
 
He is a traitor.. traitors should never be released.
 
PeteEU said:
He is a traitor.. traitors should never be released.
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I unequivocally agree.

Actually I have one exception, I'd be fine paroling a traitor to a cemetery.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Parole is part of the sentence as he demonstrates his fitness or not for actual release.
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you mean every prisoner doesn't get to choose where he spends his parole time?
how mean we are being to this traitor to our country
 
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