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To: tejek who wrote (488401)	6/16/2009 1:14:46 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1573061

I really think Israel DOES see us as a bunch of hapless chumps. And we act in a way that says they are right. Why Jonathan Pollard Got Life meforum.org "THE WEINBERGER DECLARATIONS The VIS was but the first step in this transformation. In January 1987, the government submitted a 46-page classified declaration from Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger that described in detail the harm Pollard's activities had allegedly caused to national security. (This is presumably the in camera affidavit anticipated in the first sentence of the VIS.) We do not know precisely what Secretary Weinberger wrote in this declaration; much of the document remains classified and unavailable to the public. In the heavily redacted version that has been released, however, there appears the charge, for the first time, that Pollard had endangered American lives. By disclosing to the Israelis "sources and methods of information acquisition," Weinberger asserted, Pollard "jeopardized ... the sources of that information, by placing it outside of a U.S. controlled security environment."6In addition, "U.S. combat forces, wherever they are deployed in this world, could be unacceptably endangered through successful exploitation of this data."7 Then, on March 3, 1987 -- the day before Pollard was to be sentenced -- Secretary Weinberger submitted a supplemental declaration to the court, which included the following: "It is difficult for me, even in the so-called "year of the spy," to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant in the view of the breadth, the critical importance to the U.S., and the high sensitivity of the information he sold to Israel ... I respectfully submit that any U.S. citizen, and in particular a trusted government official, who sells U.S. secrets to any foreign nation should not be punished merely as a common criminal. Rather the punishment imposed should reflect the perfidy of the individual's actions, the magnitude of the treason committed, and the needs of national security."8 Weinberger here accuses Pollard of "treason" -- a legal term of art defined in both the Constitution and Federal statute as levying war against the United States or aiding America's enemies.9 The secretary's use of the term is breathtakingly inappropriate.10 In making its case against Pollard, the government traveled a great distance: from choosing in its indictment not to charge Pollard with injuring the United States, to listing in the Victim Impact Statement allegations of damage to American interests, to raising in Secretary Weinberger's January declaration the specter of danger to American lives, to accusing Pollard of "treason" in Weinberger's eve-of-sentencing supplemental declaration. It almost appears that the government leveled a charge of lesser magnitude against Pollard; successfully secured his guilty plea; and then post-facto kept upping the ante, to the point where a life sentence became almost inevitable." and... jonathanpollard.org jonathanpollard.org gopetition.com geocities.com kydem.blogspot.com estherandjonathanpollard.net