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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dougjn who wrote (10981)	10/23/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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...)

To: dougjn who wrote (10981)	10/23/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Gee - I agree. No single unelected person should be able to decide what our foreign policy will be - especially when they do it for $$$. They said on NBCNews that Pollard turned over 45 filing cabinet drawers full of information and that Israel denied throughout his trial that Pollard was ever their agent. They lied. And since when does the US have to give up a spy-traitor as part of a negotiation between Israel and its enemies? Unless, of course, Israel regards the US as its enemy. Everything about this deal reeks of Clintonian political expediency - trying to make Clinton look like a leader in the runup to the elections. I wonder when we will learn how many billions of US $$$ Clinton promised in order to secure this PR event for himself.