"The government is misleading the public":
"Every day that Jonathan Pollard remains in prison," said civil rights proponent Law Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard University, "is another day of injustice."
Pollard himself has said that in fact, he used a small briefcase to make a total of 11 drops of information to the Israelis. He says that the Americans routinely exaggerate the amount of information he gave Israel ...jonathanpollard.com 13.Nov.06
Olive, apparently enthusiastic over his arrest of a famous spy, says that Pollard stole some of "the most closely-guarded secrets of the United States" and gravely endangered U.S. security...
Pollard was never indicted for compromising U.S. codes, agents, or war plans, was not charged with treason, and was convicted only of one count of passing classified information to an ally, without intent to harm the United States...
The information Pollard provided Israel was supposed to have been provided to Israel according to a 1983 U.S.-Israeli Memorandum of Understanding. It included Syrian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare capabilities that were being developed for use against Israel, as well as information on ballistic missile development in these countries and planned terrorist attacks against Israeli targets...
The Jerusalem-based Committee to Bring Jonathan Pollard Home says that the report is full of easily refutable lies...
"The timing of the 'exclusive' item on the U.S. Navy...stems from a fear by the anti-Israeli elements in the American intelligence community - who always work to prevent his release - that Bush is likely to respond favorably to an official Israeli request for his release."
Full of Lies "The report was full of lies that can be refuted in an absolute manner," the organization states...
the FBI concluded, after nine months of investigation including polygraphs, that Pollard acted for ideological reasons only, not for profit. This fact was also recognized by the sentencing judge, who declined to fine Pollard - even while disregarding a plea bargain arrangement and sentencing him to an unprecedented life term in prison.
