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Former Senior U.S. Officials Slam "Unjust Denial of Parole" for Jonathan Pollard


(JNS.org) Eight former senior U.S. officials have written a letter to President Barack Obama that strongly protests the "unjust denial of parole" for Jonathan Pollard, an American citizen convicted of spying for Israel in 1985. The officials called the U.S. government's contention that Pollard's espionage "was the greatest compromise of U.S. security to that date" a "patently false claim." The letter was signed by individuals with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Pollard case, including R. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA; Dennis DeConcini, former chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee; David F. Durenburger, also a former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee; Robert C. MacFarlane, former U.S. National Security Advisor; Lawrence J. Korb, former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense; Prof. Angelo Codevilla, a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer; Lee Hamilton, former chair of the House Select Committee on Intelligence; and attorney Bernard W. Nussbaum, former White House counsel.
2014-11-21 00:00:00
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