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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: dougjn who wrote (10981)10/23/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
doug -- I have been less supportive of US policy towards Israel than you have been, judging from your post.

But I do have a question about Pollard. You think that spies for so-called "friendly countries" deserve at least life imprisonment, preferably execution. (Do I understand you correctly?)

Now, I personally do not know how many spies for "friendly countries" we have found, tried, and sentenced. I don't even know what countries they spied for -- but, with the exception of Pollard, I think we can say it was not for Israel, or else we would be hearing about that.

What I do know -- from what I "read in the newspaper" (beware! beware!) -- is: 1) spies for friendly countries are not, in practice, executed; 2) in practice, none of them have been kept in prison (whatever they were originally sentenced to)as long as Pollard has.

If that "what I read in the newspapers" information is correct, then this question arises: Is there any justification for keeping a spy for Israel in jail longer than a spy for any other "friendly" country?

You're the lawyer...:-)

jbe

P.S. And why aren't we celebrating the fact that the Israelis and Palestinians have finally signed an agreement "of sorts"? (Not that I don't have a problem with all that CIA stuff...)
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