The Nation : Pollard Seeks Lesser Term
Convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard asked a federal judge to reduce his life sentence for selling thousands of pages of classified documents to Israel. In a motion to reduce Pollard’s sentence, defense attorney Richard Hibey disputed the government’s assertion that the former civilian Navy intelligence analyst had severely damaged national security. Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, were arrested after they unsuccessfully sought political asylum at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
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