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Originally Posted by Platapus
Free being a relative term. He still has 5 years in parole. Any violation and he is right back in the grey place.
He served his time and I am glad he had to serve the full time.
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He didn't serve the full time: he was sentenced to life. He had entered into a plea deal in order to serve less time, but, because he, Pollard, had numerously times violated the terms of the agreement he had signed, the judge in the case saw fit to void the agreement and, instead, sentence Pollard to life in prison. Given that he couldn't even manage to keep his nose clean in order to keep his prison sentence at a minimum, there is serious doubt about his ability to faithfully observe the conditions of his parole. Pollard's life is rife with instances of his saying one thing and doing another. It can only be hoped he will run true to his previous rep and again wind up a guest of a US prison...
Incidentally, for those may have not fully looked up his transgressions, here is a bit from Wikipedia:
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Pollard revealed aspects of the American intelligence gathering process, the “sources and methods”. He sold numerous closely guarded state secrets, including the National Security Agency's ten-volume manual on how the U.S. gathers its signal intelligence, and disclosed the names of thousands of people who had cooperated with U.S. intelligence agencies. Though Benjamin Netanyahu argued that he did not work for anyone but Israel, Pollard admitted shopping his services—successfully, in some cases—to other countries.
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There is a very good friend of mine, who is Jewish, who has, in the past, attempted to defend Pollard's activities; I once asked him what Israel would do if an Israeli citizen had been selling Israeli intelligence secrets to foreign powers. He conceded Israel would no doubt imprison the offender in the worst conditions possible; I added the offender would be imprisoned, of course, but only if the Mossad or Shin Bet didn't get to the offender first, you know, maybe an "unfortunate accident"...
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