love this xtra trivia on the intelligence community!
re pardoning Pollard: another reason, besides pidyon shvuyim, is that Pollard is sitting for giving over secrets to a FRIENDLY country. In comparison, those that have given over secrets to an ENEMY country have all sat for just a few years. Pollard has paid his dues time and a half by now and should be pardoned. And their crimes were twice as bad.
For all those members that always demand “sources”- I apologize. I’ve read so many articles about this I can not possibly recall which one contained the info comparing similar crimes and their punishments.