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Source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=205369
Former U.S. Deputy Attorney-General: Pollard Didn't Harm U.S.
(Jerusalem Post) Gil Hoffman - Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard did not do any damage to the U.S. by passing classified information to Israel, former U.S. deputy attorney-general Philip B. Heymann wrote to President Obama Wednesday in a request to commute Pollard's sentence. "Pollard's conviction was justified but his sentence was entirely out of line with others engaging in similar behavior and it was made less-than-legitimate by a treacherous recommendation of the then secretary of defense [Caspar Weinberger]," Heymann wrote. "There is no evidence that Pollard intended to harm the United States or help its enemies."