Israeli Spy Pollard Will Be Released in November, Lawyers Say

[ericson00]

Source: Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—A federal parole panel has granted parole to Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, with a planned release in November, his attorneys said Tuesday.

The announcement said the decision by the parole commission was unanimous and wasn’t in any way related to U.S. negotiations with Iran.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that U.S. officials were preparing to release Mr. Pollard, and that some officials in the Obama administration hoped his release after 30 years in prison would smooth over some of the Israeli anger over the pending Iran deal.

The lawyers for Mr. Pollard said the U.S. government didn’t oppose his release.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-spy-pollard-will-be-released-in-november-lawyers-say-1438104728

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Let's hope this patches up things with the Jewish State of Israel. Allies spy on each other all the time: ask Germany, France, UK, etc. It will also be interesting to see how this affects the Iran deal and sentiments towards it.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. He's done his time.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Having completed his full sentence of imprisonment under the law....which CNN refuses to add to most mentions.

Funny how facts interfere so often with the instant outrage media idea of "news".

If you are not outraged enough by the information supplied then it is not newsworthy enough to be called "news", is it?

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. How did he manage that? He was sentenced to life in prison

[tammywammy]

5. Sentencing guidelines at the time of his sentence had mandatory parole after 30 years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/doj-jonathan-pollard-is-eligible-for-mandatory-parole-in-november/2015/07/24/7f8990ca-324b-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html

The Justice Department said Friday that although Pollard was ordered to serve life in prison after being convicted of selling U.S. secrets to the Israeli government, the terms of his sentence require that he be released after 30 years — a date that will arrive this fall — unless the government can prove that he violated rules in prison or is likely to commit additional crimes.

[cstanleytech]

16. So confused how can there be mandatory parole when they abolished parole for federal

crimes back in 1984?

[happyslug]

6. Life imprisonment includes the right to be released on parole.

Thus he still will be on parole the rest of his life, but he will be on the streets UNLESS he violates his parole. Under the laws that existed at the time of his sentencing, life included the right to be released on parole. Life without Parole was just coming into the law and had NOT by the time he had committed his crimes been extended to include the crimes he was convicted of.

[ericson00]

9. agreed. I'm disgusted by how CNN

covers the Jewish State. Its a shame because it does OK on others, tho not so hot. While yes they do want to increase their Muslim audience, that cannot be done at the expense of the facts.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Your understandable error is thinking CNN program director Jeff Zucker gives a shit about Muslim viewership.

CNN and Bibi are stuck together with CrazyGlue, Wolf Blitzer is the stickiest and craziest of them all.

[geek tragedy]

4. parolees aren't allowed to leave the country without permission, however, so he

has to stay in the country he betrayed and repudiated rather than the one to which he's always been loyal until a parole officer gives him the okay to leave

[kelliekat44]

8. That's ok. He will live like a hero. nt

[still_one]

15. I read somewhere that the terms of the parole are that he has to stay in the U.S. for 5 years

[DashOneBravo]

17. The one to which he's always been loyal?

Didn't he try to shop that around to a few others?

[BillZBubb]

7. Will the US look the other way when he violates his parole

by going to Israel? Or will the administration simply give him permission.

Will his triumphant reception in Israel be viewed as a slap in the face of the US, or will we, as usual, say "thank you great ally, may I have another"?

And his release won't end the Israeli attempts to scuttle the Iran deal.

[ericson00]

10. who cares. The Jewish State is America's best and most stable ally in the ME

a country we don't have to worry about uprisings in, or gross human rights violations (at least within the Green Line, and even with regard to the WB, the Palestinians still haven't retired the idea of destroying Israel as an ethnic-Jewish majority state), an economic crisis because one single resource, you know. I love the Jewish State of Israel.

[BillZBubb]

11. How is Israel an ally of the US? It is a one way street for Israel.

We give them money, military hardware and diplomatic cover for their brutal actions.

They give us? Nada. They ignore our wishes on items like the settlements. They are openly opposing the president of the United States on a treaty with Iran that is clearly in the best interest of the US (and Israel too). They have become directly aligned with the republican party. They urged us into an idiotic war in Iraq. We suffer the blowback from their actions because of our support.

I love the USA. Israel, not so much.

[ericson00]

14. well I think the case made in

this piece is why America and Israel, the two greatest nations on Earth, will stand forever thru the ages

[NaturalHigh]

13. I'm glad he's finally being released.

It's about time.

[Reter]

18. Fuck him

They shouldn't let him near any Israelis ever again. God know what he may tell them and what secrets he knows.