(JTA) A bipartisan slate of former U.S. senators including Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Connie Mack (R-Fla.) and David Durenberger (R-Minn.) has urged President Obama to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard. "We do not condone espionage, nor do we underestimate the gravity of Pollard's crime," says the Oct. 26 letter released on Monday. "But it is patently clear that Mr. Pollard's sentence is severely disproportionate and (as several federal judges have noted) a gross miscarriage of justice."
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