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To: TigerPaw who wrote (414417)	6/12/2003 10:41:30 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

Treason? Nope. Treason is the act of aiding and supporting the enemy....Clearly not the case even if you were correct....

To: TigerPaw who wrote (414417)	6/12/2003 2:01:56 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

TP, my Webster's dictionary defines treason as "...violation of the allegiance owed to one's sovereign or state; betrayal of one's country, specif., in the U.S. (as declared in the Constitution), consisting only in levying war against the U.S. or in giving aid and comfort to its enemies." This hardly meets that definition. BTW, Jonathon Pollard continues to rot in jail, where he belongs. If you recall, Benjamin Netanyahu requested his release in 1998. Bill Clinton sent up a couple of trial balloons, found that there was huge resistance to a pardon and said no. The issue came up again during the fall of 2000, when Hillary was running for the Senate and pursuing the Jewish vote. If Bill had not taken so much heat for his FALN pardons, Pollard might be free. Hillary's comments from that period are amusing to read: 216.239.37.100 CLINTON: What Pollard did was a terrible crime against the US. It was a great breach of trust and national security and he plead guilty, was convicted and is serving a very long prison term. The question for me is around the due process issues concerning the way that he was sentenced. It is something that I have questions about and I believe that fair-minded people should ask similar questions. There was secret evidence put in before the court that has never been revealed.