SEE NOTE AT END OF ARTICLE: The following is a question which was asked by a reporter at Wednesday’s White House press briefing to Press Secretary Dana Perino:
REPORTER: Two questions. Two hundred of Israel’s rabbis and other Israeli leaders, including generals, petitioned the President concerning the very serious health condition, in his 23rd year in prison, of Jonathan Pollard. And they asked the President to give him clemency. I’m wondering, does the President — he is aware of this, and what is the reaction?
MS. PERINO: The President is well aware of the request to pardon — or commute the sentence of Jonathan Pollard, but as I said to Kathleen, I’m not able to comment on where those things stand. I just — it’s a private matter for the President and if and when there would be an action that the President would take, then we would let you know.
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(Dov Gordon – YWN)
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7 Responses
Wow!
From this transcript it would seem that the Whitehouse is very much aware of
the Pollard clemency request.
If this is in fact the case, WE must re-double our efforts to call and fax the President as the Askanim have been urging us too.
Time is running out. We can make a difference.
Call the President at the White House at (202) 456-1111
(If busy call the switchboard at (202) 456-1414)
– Send a fax to the President at the White House at
(202) 456-2461
– Send a letter to the President:
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC, 20500
Absolutely.
Does anyone have his PIN # ?
No question that we should write to the President about Pollard. But I think that it’s an exercise in futility. There is no way that they’ll allow him to get out. 2 Israeli Prime Ministers have told 2 Presidents that they won’t go on with any talks unless Pollard is released. And after talking with US officials backed off. Everybody screams it’s politics and anti semitism. No it’s national security and it won’t happen. But write we must. Ya never know. Hashem after all does do miracles.
I have and will find 60 seconds a day to assist.
Mr. Bush has no stance on the Jonathan Pollard being a “national security” issue when he declares a war on terror and supports open southern borders where intelligence agencies have briefed him of the high possibility that arab terrorists have crossed that border posing as Mexicans.
what about samet. how can we get him out? can we start a campaign ??
PLEASE call the white house and mention his name that the message should get to the president.
Please no comments on if he deserves to get out.
Think of his family and children. They are lebediga aluma and yesoimim. They have no husband and father for almost 10 years!!
TAKE A MINUTE OF YOUR TIME AND HELP A FELLOW YID~
Call the President at the White House at (202) 456-1111
(If busy call the switchboard at (202) 456-1414)
– Send a fax to the President at the White House at
(202) 456-2461
– Send a letter to the President:
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC, 20500
REF: Mordechai Samet
inmate#83253-054