Rep. Barney Frank is attempting to get House members to sign a letter to President Obama which requests the release of Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence for spying for Israel. In exchange for Pollard, the US would get a three-month extension on the temporary and partial Israeli freeze on settlement construction on the West Bank. This deal is the brainchild of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu according to the Hebrew language version of Ha’aretz.
Frank is peddling Netanyahu’s deal as a US gesture of good intentions toward Israel. Gee, hasn’t the Obama administration made enough such gestures already? Frank’s office released the following statement which
…notes the positive impact that a grant of clemency would have in Israel, as a strong indication of the goodwill of our nation towards Israel and the Israeli people…. This would be particularly helpful at a time when the Israeli nation faces difficult decisions in its long-standing effort to secure peace with its neighbors…
Frank, who is supported by JStreet, the “moderate” Jewish lobby, surely knows how humiliating the terms of his proposed agreement would be for our government. A three-month extension on a freeze agreement which would only be selectively enforced is a ridiculously small price to pay for the return of a spy who many people believe did more damage to US security than any other. It is widely believed that then Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir sold much of Pollard’s stolen information to the Soviet’s in the 80s.
The terms of the deal are so one-sided it is difficult to not dismiss it as anything but political grandstanding. If Frank and Netanyahu were serious about this exchange they would have used a less public forum for communicating it to the White House. But the Israelis and their supporters in the US can never get enough of seeing a powerful US politician make that “I love Israel” gesture. Frank probably owes a favor to someone at AIPAC or he is planning a big Bar Mitzvah at the Wailing Wall for his nephew and wants to make sure that he and his family get the ultimate in VIP treatment.
Frank’s House letter is not the first time the Pollard clemency issue has arisen. Israel has periodically attempted to negotiate for Pollard, who is considered to be a hero and legendary spy there. President Clinton purportedly agreed to release him during the negotiations with Netanyahu which led to the Wye Agreement. However, when CIA head George Tenet threatened to resign, Clinton nixed the deal.
For years, contrary to all evidence and logic, Israel claimed that Pollard participated in a “rogue” intelligence operation. Finally, they admitted that Pollard was part of a Mossad spying operation in the US which was government-sanctioned. Israel gives so many different fanciful explanations about so many different illegal operations it is difficult for even government officials to keep up with the most current versions. Recently, Michael Oren, the Israeli Ambassador to the US, contradicted the new official government line by declaring that Pollard was not an official Israeli spy. Oren went on to claim that Israel does not spy on the United States. Right….
The chances that Netanyahu and Frank can spring Pollard anytime soon seem slim. There is a long history of denying clemency requests for Pollard and Obama is not one that is likely to ignore precedent. Also, US defense establishment has traditionally been against granting clemency, and Obama is said to stand in awe of the military.
You have to figure, however, that Netanyahu still believes that “America is something that can be moved easily” or he would never have proposed the Pollard-for-a-freeze-extension deal.
Apparently the US congress has two sets of rules, one for Israel and one for the rest of the world.
Why would the US release a convicted spy/traitor and what on earth does releasing him have to do with the ME peace process?
I used to have respect for Barney Frank but he has proven to be a blind supporter of Israel.
Frank is a poster child for PEP.
Maybe Frank could make a counter-offer – free Pollard in exchange for Mordechai Vanunu to leave Israel and settle in the US.
Barney supports Israel no matter what they do. No matter how much what Israel does to undermine and endanger the U.S. and U.S. citizens. Frank is all about being aggressive with Iran. Barney did vote no on the Iraq war resolution.
No way they will let Pollard go. All they I would have to say if they threw in Modechai Vanunu, and stop the expansion of all illegal settlements all together then let the deal begin
Larry King interviewed the Iranian leader on his show earlier this week.
When said leader suggested the Palestinians had some justification for their protests against Israel and they, after all, had nothing to do with
the Holocaust, Larry nearly jumped out of his famous suspenders growling jews had all the right in the world, after all “nine million were killed in the Holocaut!”
Shouldn’t Obama & Co be demanding various compliances with international law or threaten to withhold aid instead?
Such as reigning in the settlers?
Such as stop stealing land?
Maybe even throw in demanding the release of Mordechai Vanunu, allowing him to leave the country?
And several hundred other things as well.
Just who is it runs “our” former colonies nowadays???!!!
Just read your release Mordechai demand…what a brave man
I have been unable to obtain a copy of the “Dear Colleague” letter, but this issue is particularly dear to Anthony Weiner, who has been lobbying for the release of Pollard every year for many years. It’s weird to imagine any other Congressman who provides constituent services for a foreign spy and does not end up in Guantanamo.
In the case of Barney Frank, he has thrown away any credibility as an occasionally maverick Jewish politician with occasionally independent progressive positions.
I hate to say it, but when Jewish politicians do crap like this, it only reinforces the suspicions of anti-Semites who point at their dual loyalty — or in this case — misplaced loyalty.
Weiner? Really? creepy
Was looking for anything to back up your claim about Rep Anthony Weiner being in support of releasing Pollard
Here we go
link to jonathanpollard.org
March 14, 2001
Hon. Wilma Lewis
United States Attorney
District of Columbia
555 Fourth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Re: United States v. Jonathan Jay Pollard
Crim. No. 86-0207 (NHJ)
Dear Ms. Lewis:
On November 29, 2000, I wrote to you urging that you grant Mr. Pollard’s security-cleared defense counsel access to the classified portions of the court docket. I have not received any response to that letter.
Since then, your office has continued to oppose any access to the classified record by Mr. Pollard’s counsel. On January 12, 2001, Hon. Norma Holloway Johnson agreed with your office’s position and denied defense counsel’s motion for access.
As a Member of Congress, I would like to know:
* For each classified portion of the five classified documents, what is the classification (e.g., confidential, secret, top secret)?
* For each classified portion of the five classified documents, what is the declassification schedule?
* How many people have been accorded access to any of these classified documents since March 4, 1987, the day of Mr. Pollard’s sentencing?
I look forward to your prompt response.
Very truly yours,
(signed)
Congressman Anthony Weiner
don’t see a letter asking for his release
another from Weiner
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington DC 20515-3209
Congressman Anthony D. Weiner
June 11, 2001
Sheryl I. Walter
Acting Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legislative Affairs
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Ms. Walter:
I have received your letter dated May 7, 2001, written in response to my letter of March 14, 2001, in which I had requested three pieces of information concerning the classified portions of the court docket in United States v. Pollard; the classification for each portion of each of the five classified documents; the declassification schedule for each such portion; and the number of people who have been accorded access to any of the classified documents since Mr. Pollard was sentenced. Your response did not adequately address my concerns.
In response to the classification for each portion of each of the five classified documents, your letter states that “The classified portions of the record in this case are classified up to and including Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI).” This does not tell me each of the classifications for each of the classified portions, only that some of the classified portions are classified TS/SCI. I am especially interested in finding out which documents, or portions of documents, have lower classifications. Please provide that information.
In response to my request for the declassification schedule for each portion of the classified documents, your letter states that “(t)he classified documents in question lack an articulated declassification schedule(.)” Your letter goes on to state that, pursuant to Executive Order 12958, the documents “are to be reviewed for declassification when they become 25 years old, or sometime during the year 2011.” I have looked at Executive Order 12958. I see no 25-year delay in declassification as y ou describe. Rather, pursuant to # l.6(b) of Executive Order 12958, where the original classification authority did not establish a specific date or event for declassification, the classified information must be marked for declassification on the 10th year from the date of the original decision to classify. Pursuant to # 1.6(e), classified information that contains no declassification instructions “shall be declassified” in accordance with part 3 of the Executive Order. Accordingly, it would appear that based on your statement that the documents at issue “lack an articulated declassification schedule,” under the default designation to which you refer, the documents at issue should be marked for immediate declassification, and then declassified, since more than ten years have elapsed since 1987, when they were originally classified.
And finally, in response to my request regarding the number of people who have been accorded access to any of the classified documents, your letter claims “we are unable to comment concerning whether anyone has been accorded access to the classified documents because that would be a matter placed under seal by order of the court.” However, nothing in the court’s protective order dated October 24, 1986 states that the information I requested, the number of people who have had access to the classified portions of the docket, has been placed under seal. If there is some other order that places that information under seal, please provide me with a copy of that order so that I may review it. If not, please provide the information.
Thank you for your continued consideration of this matter. I look forward to your response.
Sincerely, (Signed)
ANTHONY D. WEINER
Member of Congress
ehren,
No, it’s not ‘misplaced loyalty’, it’s out and out and in-yer-face traitorism.
Barney Frank is a lowly, self-centered and corrupt to the bone politician.
Disgusting temerity!
Name and shame and vote f–kers like Barney out!
You need to understand what Pollard did.
Deaths Caused:
120 CIA agents, their families, CIA handlers, and over 1600 CIA assets. Tortured, murdered, shots to the back of their heads.
What Pollard did is still classified to this day, so American can’t know the full story.
Six former Secretaries of Defense wrote Presidents Bush Sr., and Clinton not to pardon him.
George Tenet and high-level senior CIA officials threatened to resign on the spot if Clinton pardoned Pollard.
Allan C. Bromfeld of the American Council on Judaism:
What Pollard did, from Veterans Today:
Seymour Hersh in the 1999 New Yorker article Why Pollard Should Never Be Released (The Traitor)
We just executed a woman for getting accomplices to kill her husband and step-son for the insurance money, and Barney Frank wants us to trade this traitor, who has been called the worst spy in all of US history, who caused the torture and death of 120 American covert agents and their families, in exchange for a freeze on settlements for three months in negotiations that do not involve us? [Ronald Pelton, an NSA technician, is serving three life terms plus 10 years for selling electronic eavesdropping to Russia. Pollard gave the Israeli/Russians the whole megillah; he was given the identification number of the beyond-top-secret documents to pull from the library he had clearance for and that's how he pulled them out; a 2008 Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff said the FBI and CIA are still working to find the mole who gave Israel those document numbers when they arrested an 80-year-old US Army guy in 2008 in connection with the Pollard case who had the same Israeli handlers.]
Has this country finally gone 100% insane?
And to think Pollard’s sitting in jail with Bernie Madoff. They’re block mates.
Essentially, Israel traded US security to the Soviets in exchange for Avigdor Lieberman. And a bunch of antisemitic Nazi skinheads who came with him.
And then the US paid for all those russki thugs to go to Israel.
What a bargain. I’ll remember this for the purpose of countering anti-semitic stereotypes about Jews being clever in business and always getting the better part of the deal
And let’s be really clear about this: When Pollard did what he did, and when he got caught, and when he got sentenced, he was an American citizen. He is an American traitor.
Israel typed up an Israeli passport for him while he’s been sitting in jail, and now claiming he’s an Israeli, an Israeli hero. B.S. he is. His Israeli passport is the paper equivalent of him jumping bail at the DC airport.
He’s an American citizen. And an American traitor. He can ‘go home to Israel’ in an effing pine box.
I forgot the link for Veterans Today:
link to veteranstoday.com
The last three paragraphs of Allan C Brownfeld’s article (link above.) And since just started the seven days of Sukkot, something to think about:
Thanks for reminding us
“120 CIA agents, their families, CIA handlers, and over 1600 CIA assets. Tortured, murdered, shots to the back of their heads.”
What a scum bag. Amazing that U.s. Israeli relationship was maintained and still so much money to Israel.
I know there was an investigation into the cost to U.S. National Security in both lives and money in the Valerie Plame outing. Will we ever know about how her outing by the Bush administration effected U.S. national security?
People have been executed in this country for far far less. Wonder why he was not sentenced to be executed?
You can bet that the Israelis and their minions in the US Congress know exactly what Pollard did. But all that matters to them is that Pollard is a Jew and thus deserves immunity for any crime.
RE: “But all that matters to them is that Pollard is a Jew and thus deserves immunity for any crime.” – potsherd
MY COMMENT: Does that include Jews like Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Richard Goldstone, Mordechai Vanunu, Uri Avnery, etc?
Here’ a question; is there anything a jewish person or persons(s) can do “for” Israel that would NOT be forgiven – if not outright justified – by the jewish American establishment? if a “Jewish “person” were, say, to assassinate Obama, Israel would probably make him/her an especially honorary citizen. And Barney and friends would find reason why that’s not such a bad thing (ie, after bleating for the mandatory 4 days) and besides said hypothetical ‘assassin’ was just somewhat deranged – maybe [understandably] driven nut by that creeping sharia law or something.
And while I am on hypothetical, the really really sad thing is to realize that there is absolutely nothing Israel can do that would be horrible enough for the same “Jewish establishment” to condemn. Shocking as it may seem, I do honestly believe that were israel to literally gas the 100,000 Gazans into oblivion, or send 1 M palestinians packing – right on prime time TV for all to see – most israelis would excuse that as necessary, going on to party as they have before; even as a very sizable number of jewish Americans (right along with their christian zionist blood brothers and sisters).
Oh, and Witty would be here, braying for understanding of “the other”, offering his humanism and preaching against “maximalist” responses.
Danaa, sad isn’t it…that you’re right.
Danaa, let’s face it, Maximalism is the source of all evil in the world. We need more minimalism to balance things off. Plus, minimalism is the latest rave nowadays, even architects and interior designers agree.
“minimalism is the latest rave nowadays”
has been around for a while. Remember the Bauhaus. The Nazis closed them down, and off they went – to the US, to Palestine. White City, Tel Aviv, for instance
True. Good point.
Another good point: Internment of innocent German Americans in Crystal City, TX. This was done even before Hitler joined Japan’s war on the USA.
Jonathan Pollard, an American of Jewish ancestry and Zionist extremist views who publicly acclaims that he tried to destroy America to help maintain the “racial purity of Israel.”
If that is accurate, I am ROTFLMSJAO!!! Cause nothing would help protect the “racial purity” of Israel like an America too weak to support it.
120 CIA agents, their families, CIA handlers, and over 1600 CIA assets. Tortured, murdered, shots to the back of their heads.
MRW, please explain how a civilian working with the US Navy could be responsible for the deaths of covert CIA Agents, their handlers, and assets?
Why does this blog allow this nonsense to be repeated, when it is obviously a lie?
You need to read the links I gave above and do your own research. I dont have the time to write a treatise. And just for the record, the guy who wrote the Veterans Today article has a Jewish mother, but I don’t think he’s religious. I’ve followed this story since 1986, when it broke during the Cold War. Dershowitz copped Pollard a lifetime sentence to keep him from going to trial and getting the death sentence, then he quoted the indictment as what he was presumably guilty of.
The short answer is that Pollard handed over all the names of all the CIA covert agents, handlers, and assets behind the Iron Curtain as part of the complete nuclear and conventional attack plan against the USSR, all the NATO attack plans, etc. Israel gave them to Russia in trade for Jews out of the USSR.
Next time you accuse me of nonsense, read the information first. It’s either that or you’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
A Civilian in the navy doesn’t get names of CIA operatives. You can keep repeating the same nonsense, but it is not true. I don’t care who has a Jewish mother or not, a lie is a lie. I’ve done my research and I haven’t seen a single article, even on conspiracy sites you’ve linked to, which says as much.
Pollard is scum and deserves to spend his entire life in jail. I am not arguing with that. But dont turn his crimes into something they weren’t.
Fixed blockquote.
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That’s how informants get information, they sympathize with the listener, put him at ease, agree with him, and as soon as the listener feels comfortable around them, he spills the beans, thus falling in the trap set up by the informant. In common parlance they’re called shtinkers, squealers.
What I’m getting at is that you’re not interested in understanding the charges against Pollard, but instead you’re interested in starting a discussion about his crimes and what will most likely degenerate into false allegations as you dismiss commenters and the information they provide as “liars”. We’ve all been to 4th grade. We all know how those games work.
If you want an answer to your question, read the links provided by MRW. He’s already posted the information. All you have to do is read it.
Simple enough, right?
The irony with Zionists is that they rarely see their own hypocrisy. Here you are presented with facts on the Pollard case, but since those facts don’t agree with your agenda, you reject them as outright lies. Worse yet, then you turn around and use that tactic — of equating fact with opinion — with matters related to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. And so you come up with the assertion that
It’s not easy debating your kind when you are so inclined to play games, to deceive and to use dirty tricks. Some honesty would be nice.
MRW, please explain how a civilian working with the US Navy could be responsible for the deaths of covert CIA Agents, their handlers, and assets?
link to en.wikipedia.org
Well worth a read. Pollard deserves life sentence.
Israeli espionage in the US is the perfect lever with which a President – if they wished – could cool relations and restore a little sanity.
yonira,
If you need an explanation as to how Top Secret information can compromise officers in the field, then there’s no point in responding to you and providing you with an answer. It’d be like explaining to a grown man with his cerebral faculties in tact why going to the bathroom in the middle of the street is inappropriate and illegal.
<blockquote cite=""Why does this blog allow this nonsense to be repeated, when it is obviously a lie?
I see you’ve tacked on your boilerplate for good measure, eh?
Rehmat,
I need a lesson on how a civilian in the Navy can get top secret information on CIA agents. Please enlighten me, or just denigrate me like you denigrate anyone else who doesn’t agree with you, Zionist or non-Zionist. Please don’t respond to me anymore unless you can add to the conversation. The mondocensors won’t stop your ad-hominems, so I am asking you to stop them on your own.
MRW gave you several links. I suggest you read the article from Seymour Hersh. There’s ample information there to answer your rather naive question about the ability of Pollard to jeopardize American agents through the massive theft of intelligence information.
Who is naive tree? A civilian in the Navy doesn’t get classified info on CIA operatives. I am not arguing that Pollard shouldn’t spend his life in jail. I am arguing the nonsense about CIA agents dying because of information stolen by a contracted civilian in the Navy.
‘Why did Israel send this information to Russia, the names of all American intelligence assets behind the Iron Curtain, the exact locations of all NATO nuclear weapons facilities, missile silos and detail on how to defeat America’s defenses from nuclear attack?’ — Veterans Today
How is it that the bipartisan political consensus in Washington continues to describe Israel as a close friend of the US, when Israel severely compromised US security in the 1980s by sharing US nuclear defense secrets with Russia?
This grave act of hostility on Israel’s part came less than 20 years after its deadly attack on the USS Liberty in international Mediterranean waters, killing 34 US sailors.
All objective evidence suggests — and I will continue to insist — that Israel is probably the most vicious enemy the United States has. This is particularly so because of Israel’s snake-in-the-grass, false-friend pose.
Israel’s myriads of overt agents (e.g. Barney Frank, Eliot Engel, et al) give it a free pass from elementary disclosure requirements such as FARA, while probable Israeli spies such as Rahm Emanuel are allowed to meet privately with Israeli leaders, in a stunning, flagrant risk to US security that those responsible for guarding leaks of classified information apparently are powerless to prevent.
If the true dimensions of Israeli subversion of the United States were revealed, it is likely that dozens or even hundreds of Israeli agents — some of them well-known names — would be facing capital charges for espionage and treason. The trail quite literally leads all the way to the top.
we need to lock up more of Israel’s spies not release the ones we have punished
Don’t forget the Israeli spies who were apparently following the 9/11 attackers and who cheered as they saw with their own eyes that the information they did have was proven to be correct, while they watched the Twin Towers burn and collapse from atop their van parked in New Jersey. We still don’t know why the members of the Israeli spy ring were deported after being questioned by the FBI. That deportation makes sense if warnings about 9/11 provided by Israel were ignored by an embarrassed US.
Were the attackers not on airplanes? How exactly were they ‘following’ them?
They minimally videotaped the first plane crashing into the WTC from a nearby building; they themselves identified themselves as Israelis who had come to watch the event when they were arrested with the white van subsequently–laughing and having a great time and photographing themselves with the smoking WTC debris at their backs.
link to historycommons.org
After they were suddenlty whisked off to Israel one of them appeared on Israeli tv and told the audience he had gone to the USA to follow the event.
I am referring to the Israeli spies watching from the roof of their van(s) on the New Jersey side of the Hudson as the Towers were being destroyed. They were part of the ring of Israeli spies rounded up by the FBI and questioned and later deported. Spies, like detectives, “follow” people without being in the same car, room, or plane.
The attackers didn’t fall down from heavens into the planes directly on their golden wings.
I know you aren’t that stupid, but perhaps you think the rest of us are? Like Avi said, the rest of us have been to fourth grade. However, did you sleep your way through education or what??
How about Obama make this counteroffer to Netanyahu:
The release of Pollard in exchange for the release of 10,000 Palestinians rotting in Israeli prisons.
After the president’s contemptuous speech yesterday, a gesture of goodwill towards the Palestinians would be much more in order
How about Obama make this counteroffer to Netanyahu: NO.
Even Obama has sense enough to say no. Though he doesn’t have enough sense–or manhood–to make this demand the “teachable moment” that he could.
Keep voting for those Dems ladies and germs.
Barney Frank
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, DC
August 12, 2002
The Honorable John Ashcroft
Attorney General
Department Of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Attorney General Ashcroft:
I understand that Jonathan Pollard, who agreed to a plea bargain but is nonetheless serving the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for his crimes, is filing a motion for re-sentencing in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia based on ineffective assistance of counsel. It has been reported to me that the Government prosecutors opposed to Mr. Pollard’s motion have repeatedly been afforded access to certain classified materials in the court’s sentencing docket for Mr. Pollard that these same prosecutors refuse to allow Mr. Pollard’s counsel to see even though Mr. Pollard’s counsel has withstood thorough background investigations.
Under basic standards of constitutional due process, incriminating evidence is generally shown to a defendant in order to allow him to adequately defend himself. And while I see the need, in the rare case involving national security, to withhold such information from a defendant, I see no purpose in keeping such information from a defendant’s counsel when his counsel has been granted a “Top Secret” security clearance. Indeed, it has been reported to me that Mr. Pollard’s counsel have been determined eligible for the even higher “SCI clearance upon a showing of “Need to know.” I do not think this “need to know” should be unilaterally determined by the same U.S. Attorney whose office is opposing Mr. Pollard’s motion.
The question of Mr. Pollard’s guilt or innocence is not the issue here. Fairness means that both sides arguing the motion (and the court) should have access to all relevant materials. And the Government should respond to Mr. Pollard’s petition on the merits, rather than make procedural arguments that he should have somehow discovered the ineffective assistance of his counsel sooner, given our constitutional duty to deal fairly with citizens.
(signed)
Barney Frank
Wow. So he’s been at “this” for some time. Never knew that Kathleen, thanks for the post.
link to jonathanpollard.org
“Mrs. Pollard told Israel Radio, “This is the first time in the history of modern espionage that an agent has been forced to face a court of law on his own in the country where he operated, without receiving any support from the country which sent him and for whom he sacrificed himself. It is now 21 years! Ayfoh HaBoosha?! [Where is the sense of shame?!] To this very day they are not working for Jonathan’s release and not giving him any backing!”
“Whenever I am out in public,” she said, “people come up to me again and again to express their outrage at the ingratitude and irresponsibility of the government, which instead of freeing from captivity the one who served the State and saved the lives of Israeli citizens, just threw him to the dogs… You know, even the ordinary citizen on the street understands that whomever is willing to leave a wounded soldier ‘me’ahora’ [behind] is not capable of leading the nation ‘Kadima’ [forward].”
Appears that Rep Frank and Rep Weiner have really gone to bat for Pollard
Somehow those boys missed going to bat for Rachel Corrie; I don’t recall them batting for that young Turkish-American on the Gaza boat either. His parents should talk to Rachel’s family, now in lawsuit against Israel.
link to jpost.com
“WASHINGTON — – Four Democrats in Congress urged US President Barack Obama to release Jonathan Pollard as a means of advancing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
A letter circulating among other members of the US House of Representatives and initiated by Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) “notes the positive impact that a grant of clemency would have in Israel, as a strong indication of the goodwill of our nation towards Israel and the Israeli people,” said a statement issued Thursday by Frank’s office. “This would be particularly helpful at a time when the Israeli nation faces difficult decisions in its long-standing effort to secure peace with its neighbors.”
The U.S. needs to show goodwill towards Israel and the Israeli people according to these four Reps. As if 3 billion a year to Israel is not enough “goodwill” Frank is really exposing himself here and it it does not look good
An open appeal to abet treason, colloquially stated.
Given what it says systemically/institutionally, this, when one thinks about it, is worse than what Pollard did.
This is the kernel of truth, yes, which will undoubtedly get thrown out with the nightly movie theater rubbish.
Hey, lighten up, he isn’t responsible for the deaths of any Jews. Goys don’t count.
Justin Raimando has one up about the Barney Frank release Pollard issue
link to original.antiwar.com
Laura Rozen also
link to politico.com
That’s a great suggestion Raimondo makes: make any release of Pollard conditional on revealing who the higher-up was in the U.S. government who was directing him to the documents Israel wanted.
Remember the outrage over outing Valerie Plame? Multiply that by 120, add death, murder of their families and co-workers, and you’ll have one small portion of what he did. Pollard put the entire United States at risk. As CIA Director Casey said, “The Israelis used Pollard to obtain our attack plan against the U.S.S.R. all of it. The coordinates, the firing locations, the sequences.” Where NATO’s missiles were stored here and around the world and the firing codes too. This is just the known unclassified information.
If this is what ordinary Israelis want then it is fantastic news isn’t it? Pollard could be used as leverage, but instead of a lame 3 month extension on a freeze that never was, Obama should skip the whole peace negotiations charade and offer up Pollard in exchange for a complete, immediate and permanent Israeli withdrawal to the 67 borders and a declaration of a Palestinian state with E. Jerusalem as its capital. The Arab peace initiative would then take effect. Everyone’s a winner.
When the news first broke, I thought Barney Frank was simply overcompensating for his immediate, pure reaction to a Boston Herald reporter immediately following the deadly flotilla assault:
link to bit.ly
You may recall he got flamed for his spontaneous reaction and backpedalled spectacularly.
If he should be ashamed of anything, it should be for raising the issue of freeing the greatest American traitor of the last century. Apparently, Americans are such freiers that our “best friend in the region” can make such a ballsy demand for three months of a fake settlement freeze.
By the way, anyone know what’s happening with Stuart Nozette?
Slogan we will never see:
WHY DO JEWISH CONGRESSMEN LOVE TRAITORS?
The really odd statement for me is that Frank and the other three reps are saying that releasing Pollard would be “goodwill” sign to Israeli’s As if not standing up to the endless expansion of illegal settlements etc , the 3 billion a year is not enough “goodwill”
Good will? How about giving Israel the latest (very expensive) jet fighter for free?
Jobless US taxpayers to buy Israel a bunch of the latest F-35 jet fighters:
link to globes.co.il
Many western nations have contributed to the development of this jet, as well as Turkey. Israel did not. link to en.wikipedia.org
And let’s not forget the good will we give to Israel by vetoing every UN attempt to hold Israel accountable to the world community.
Unbelievable. I didn’t know about this case. Israeli arrogance is unlimited, apparently deducing that ordinary law and morality don’t apply to them. Next time some shill starts droning on about how Israel is a ‘special’ friend of the US, I suggest you just direct them to the cases of the USS Liberty and Pollard. Case closed.
Let us also not look too closely how US supplied uranium was transferred to Israel to get its nuclear weapons systems up and running. Congress was very very careful not to look too closely either.
Most Americans don’t know either case. Obviously the MSM never thought it was important enough to tell them.
Israeli companies doing wiretapping in the US include Verint, PerSay, ECtel, Comverse (Comverse Technology, Comverse Infosys), NICE, Check Point, and Narus, among others, are listed in the “Wiretappers” chapter in James Bamford’s: The Shadow Factory (c2008). The recent story about Homeland Security contracting with an Israeli company to spy on Americans on behalf of the state of Pennsylvania, should cause us to suspect that there is now more, and probably a lot more spying by Israel on Americans, than when Bamford first wrote his book.
I know why Witty is missing from this thread. He’s busy humanizing Pollard and and will post as soon as he comes up with a good defense for him!