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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones has apologized for remarks on convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, and said that they did not reflect his personal views, nor those of the Bush administration.

Jones called the comments "misinformed and misleading."

Jones told a university conference earlier in the day that the United States had been lenient with Pollard as it did not execute him for spying for Israel.

Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy, was convicted of selling military secrets to Israel while working at the Pentagon. He was arrested in 1985 and pleaded guilty at his trial. He is serving a life sentence in a U.S. federal prison.
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An Israeli political official said Israel would continue to work for Pollard's release.

However, Pollard's wife, Esther, said Jones' apology was insufficient. She said Jones made false charges against her husband. "Unless there is a specific retraction and correction, we simply must regard the apology was incomplete at best or insincere at worst," she said.

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ORIGINAL: Jack45

There was a time that America was top dog, never acted the way it does today, this is typical of the weaklings running the show, no wonder the nation is in shape it is today.
U.S. ambassador apologizes for remarks on convicted spy Pollard

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ORIGINAL: selfbnd411

Pollard should have been executed.

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ORIGINAL: selfbnd411

Sounds like a traitor to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

"According to Eric Margolis in the Toronto Sun, Pollard provided Israel with the names of American agents in the Soviet Union. Margolis also alleges that the names were later traded to the Soviet Union by Israel and a number of key CIA agents were executed as a result [7]. Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker claims that "a number of officials strongly suspect that the Israelis repackaged much of Pollard's material and provided it to the Soviet Union in exchange for continued Soviet permission for Jews to emigrate to Israel" and that "a significant percentage of Pollard's documents, including some that described the techniques the American Navy used to track Soviet submarines around the world, was of practical importance only to the Soviet Union." [8]

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ORIGINAL: selfbnd411

Sounds like a traitor to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

"According to Eric Margolis in the Toronto Sun, Pollard provided Israel with the names of American agents in the Soviet Union. Margolis also alleges that the names were later traded to the Soviet Union by Israel and a number of key CIA agents were executed as a result [7]. Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker claims that "a number of officials strongly suspect that the Israelis repackaged much of Pollard's material and provided it to the Soviet Union in exchange for continued Soviet permission for Jews to emigrate to Israel" and that "a significant percentage of Pollard's documents, including some that described the techniques the American Navy used to track Soviet submarines around the world, was of practical importance only to the Soviet Union." [8]

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ORIGINAL: selfbnd411
Pollard should have been executed.

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

I agree. You are not going to find many more people who support US/Israeli as much as I do

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

selfbnd:
Didn't the Japanese (Toshiba) sell some of the U.S. stealth submarine secrets to the Russians also.  All the government did to them was a fine and a restriction on some of their contracts.
thompson